A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak in this case isn’t COVID-19, but a vicious iteration of the avian flu. But ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - British scientists have succeeded in producing multiple generations of genetically altered, or transgenic, hens that produce functional pharmaceutical proteins in the ...

Genetically engineered breeders that lay only female chicks would eliminate the culling of day-old male chicks.

LONDON — In this case, it was neither the chicken nor the egg that came first. Rather, it started with some specially engineered cells in a lab. The chicken cells had had their genomes edited, not to ...

a bucket-shaped KFC sign on a pole - Rawf8/Getty Images Have you heard the one about the mutant chickens that KFC uses in its restaurants? If you believe the stories -- and there are a few variations ...

British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections -- a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly ...

A California biotechnology firm says it has developed a technique to genetically modify chickens to potentially produce drugs in their eggs for human diseases. The technology, devised at the privately ...

The world may be quickly forgetting about COVID-19, but there are signs the next pandemic is already cooking up – bird flu. Scientists have now demonstrated that genetically engineering chickens can ...

Have you heard the one about the mutant chickens that KFC uses in its restaurants? If you believe the stories -- and there are a few variations -- KFC genetically modified chickens so they would have ...