Describes a living thing that contains genes from another creature. Transgenic animals are bred in the laboratory, by genetically altering a newly fertilised egg.
Mice have been created with woolly mammoth-inspired traits using genome editing in de-extinction efforts.
A new magnetic resonance imaging technique has allowed scientists to observe epigenetic changes in the brain.
Nerve cells near the base of the brain play a key role in linking stress and fertility, according to new research...
A mutation in a gene specific to humans may be the key to our large brain and intelligence, scientists propose...
US scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing to remove HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals, eliminating further infection.
A new gene therapy has slowed the progress of early Alzheimer's disease in mice...
A doctor by training and a researcher at the forefront of fertility studies, Professor Lord Robert Winston, pioneer in the field of IVF and PGD, discusses the implications of new techniques for genetically modifying embryos in the Physiological Society's 2014 annual public lecture...
Male mice are able to reproduce healthy offspring with only two Y-chromosome genes, researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered...
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