David R. Walt, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, lost hundreds of thousands in research funding from the Trump administration last week — just two months ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers will soon test whether livers from a gene-edited pig could treat people with sudden liver failure — by temporarily filtering their blood so their own organ can ...

A thick, bite-sized piece of chicken fillet has been grown in a lab using tiny tubes to mimic the capillaries found in real muscle. Researchers say this gives the product a chewier texture.

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

CRISPR-Cas systems are prokaryotic immune systems that confer resistance to foreign genetic elements such as plasmids and phages. CRISPR-Cas systems have been exploited for targeted genome editing ...

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When Towana Looney returned home to Alabama from New York after becoming the third person ever to receive a genetically-modified pig kidney, her condition seemed promising. “I’m full of energy ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A global study has shown that countries which consume more plant-based proteins -- such as chickpeas, tofu and peas -- have longer adult life expectancies. Scientists studied ...

Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common bladderwrack ...