Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

A man who lived with a genetically modified pig kidney for a record 271 days had the organ removed and will return to ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly nine months after he received the ...

UCSF scientists reveal how the KLF15 protein converts white fat into brown fat that burns energy, offering new hope for ...

Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis ...

A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig ...

Historically, turning invisible was considered the stuff of wizardry and spells. More recently, physicists have also looked ...

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

In a stunning display of circular thinking, a leading science writer ends her paean to genetically engineering wild animals by writing: “Humans are the ones driving biodiversity loss of all species.