Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the findings could also have wider implications beyond flies and fish. Zooming out from the test animals, the experiment ...

In a demonstration that could help pave the way for gene therapies with fewer side effects, several human cell types have ...

Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...

Manyplants we eat today are a result of genetic modifications that would never occur in nature. Scientists have long been altering the genes of food crops, to boost food production and to make crops ...

Humans have become very good at altering the basic building blocks of life to their advantage. Genetically modified foods are available at most grocery stores. Researchers use gene-editing tools every ...

Genetically modified mice may soon be able to keep residents of a Massachusetts beach town from becoming infected with Lyme disease, an ailment already impacting 15 percent of the population, ...

In a Healio video exclusive, Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, discusses how early successes of genetically modified pig liver ...

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent ...

The United States won a ruling on Friday in a trade dispute with Mexico, which had sought to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption. U.S. growers, who had worried about the ...

A new technique developed by researchers from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology described in Nature Communications on 13 August could allow scientists to more simply and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers hope that by genetically engineering the mice to be immune to Lyme – and then releasing them on Nantucket – the ...