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Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

As flu season approaches and public health officials roll out their annual push for vaccination, Allen Institute scientists ...

Emerging genetics research could help brands create mainstream wheat products that are safer for gluten-sensitive consumers – ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

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Xenotransplantation is the fusion energy of medicine. As the well-worn joke goes, it is the future—and always will be. But ...