Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I didn’t notice earlier this year when, for the second time, a pig kidney was ...

In a medical first, doctors raced to create a bespoke CRISPR gene therapy for a boy born with a deadly genetic disease and delivered it to him a mere six and a half months after birth. The CRISPR ...

I didn’t notice earlier this year when, for the second time, a pig kidney was transplanted into a guy in New Hampshire who was getting too sick to wait for a spare human kidney to come his way. It ...