Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in life.

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A meeting of advisers chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine recommendations ended ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

Gene-edited pigs lack a sugar in their muscles that normally makes them incompatible with our biology, among other changes. © SGr via Shutterstock The tantalizing ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

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The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients. Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a ...

Florida's surgeon general says he'll work to do away with school vaccine requirements, a scenario that experts say is ...

School children, college students, and even nursing home residents would no longer have to be vaccinated against infectious ...

A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of ...