The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

The liver of a 56-year-old male patient was severely damaged. Chronic hepatitis B, compounded by alcoholic liver injury, caused a rapid decline in liver function. After receiving approximately one ...

A Dallas-based biotech company called Colossal Biosciences says it has produced “de-extinct” dire wolf pups using ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

Genetic engineering threatens the balance of healthy microbiomes. Genetically modified microorganisms, in particular, threaten this stability.

A biotech company says CRISPR could revive extinct animals like the dodo and mammoth — but many scientists remain skeptical.

On the brink of the first genetically engineered (GE) wheat to be introduced into the U.S. market, after the U.S. Department ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

To cut red tape and costs for importing and exporting with the EU, the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation. To cut red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the years, the reasons for the modification of fish genes have changed. Scientists started producing transgenic fish to ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...