In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...

In a landmark case reported in the Journal of Hepatology, Chinese surgeons have shown that a genetically modified pig liver ...

Cottonseeds could help reduce hunger and add new revenue for farmers. One researcher has been working for decades to make ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

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Roundup was first brought to market by Monsanto in 1974. Its active ingredient, glyphosate, had been rediscovered by chemists Phil Hamm and John Franz four years prior – it had first been synthesized ...

A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But ...

This paper aims to critique the argument constructed by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that pregnancy is a disease. Their argument that pregnancy fits the features of disease they enumerate stems from ...

Researchers tracked brain activity across 24 hours, showing how shifting neural control centers drive fatigue and how sleep ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

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A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...