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 ...

Organ transplantation of genetically modified animals to humans is currently not safe. This was announced on January 19 by Sergey Gauthier, chief freelance transplant specialist at the Ministry of ...

And so it has come to pass: Chinese scientists at the University in Guangzhou have created the first genetically modified human embryos. Although there had been rumors circulating for some time that ...

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