Chinese scientist He Jiankui spent three years in prison after 'creating' three genetically edited babies. Back in the ...

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in Boston said Thursday. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering ...

House lawmakers pushed to cut any funding for the genetic engineering of human embryos, taking a stance on a growing bioethics issue. A House appropriations bill released this week for the Food and ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new tools to edit the genes of human embryos, in a report issued a day before a major ...

Organ transplantation of genetically modified animals to humans is currently not safe. This was announced on January 19 by ...

Australian scientists have criticised as "gung-ho" an experimental US infertility treatment which has set off a controversy surrounding the genetic modification of humans. The comments follow ...

What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...