By reactivating a long-lost gene, researchers were able to lower uric acid levels and stop damaging fat accumulation in human ...

The FDA’s Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad have laid out a path for CRISPR treatments on demand. An expert weighs in on what it ...

As neural implant technology and A.I. advance at breakneck speeds, do we need a new set of rights to protect our most ...

A pig kidney with one genetic change functioned in a brain-dead human for 61 days, more than doubling previous records.

Findings also confirmed that a pig kidney can effectively serve as a replacement for a human kidney. Researchers have ...

Doctors at NYU Langone Health say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making kidney transplants ...

Silicon Valley billionaires love to chase extreme health tech. Their next obsession, after dabbling in tech to reverse aging, ...

In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.

Humans have been shaping life for thousands of years through farming, breeding, and selective cultivation. But with modern tools like CRISPR, we can now directly edit DNA itself—rewriting the very ...

Promising results from a small clinical trial highlight a growing interest in designing gene-editing treatments for common ...

Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a Silicon Valley startup, involves a couple with a genetic abnormality who want to ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...