We may be able to rely on pigs for life-saving transplants in the near future. A team of Japanese scientists say they've developed pigs with genetically modified organs for human transplants. The pigs ...

Chinese scientists have been editing human embryos in an attempt to make them resistant to HIV infection. There has only ever been one previously published claim of human embryonic genetic editing.

Chinese scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos for the first time, confirming a storm of rumors and igniting an ethical debate. Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, ...

SCIENTISTS will genetically modify humans for the first time in Europe after being given the go-ahead for a DNA-splicing therapy. Swiss-based biotech company Crispr Therapeutics hope to find a way of ...

A doctor is silhouetted as he walks past a poster showing images of the development of a human fetus at Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori's private clinic in Rome June 6, 2005.

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On Thursday the fertility regulator will decide whether to grant permission to the Francis Crick Institute to genetically edit human embryos Human embryos could be genetically modified for the first ...

Humans who have had their DNA genetically modified could exist within two years after a private biotech company announced plans to start the first trials into a ground-breaking new technique. Editas ...

Humans have shaped aspects of the living world to suit themselves throughout their history. We’ve domesticated plants and animals for food, security and companionship for tens of thousand of years, ...

'This is the real beginning of gene therapy', Prof Robin Lovell-Badge of London’s Francis Crick Institute said SCIENTISTS will genetically modify humans for the first time in Europe after being given ...