His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering so ...

The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the work.

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

Kaeberlein is co-director of the Dog Aging Project, an ambitious research effort to track the aging process of tens of thousands of companion dogs across the US. He is one of a handful of scientists ...

Octopuses are skilled escape artists, with some even escaping their enclosures and swimming all the way back to the wild. Their jailbreaking is less surprising in light of the fact that they have a ...

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread ...

Researchers analyzed concentrations of microplastics in 91 brain tissue samples collected during autopsies in 2016 and 2024. The samples were from the frontal cortex, the brain region above and behind ...

This shocking video captures the moment a group of runaway pigs which are causing chaos in a sleepy village digging up and destroying a resident's garden. The animals have been raiding properties in ...

In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes ...