Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some ...

Plant seeds containing Cas9 are marked with a red fluorescent marker to tell which seeds contain Cas9. Using this method, it becomes possible to obtain seeds that have a knockout mutation in their ...

Lawrence Faucette, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart in a transplant, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure. The University of Maryland Medical Center, ...