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 ...

Chicken eggs are one of the most common food allergens, especially among children. Many people outgrow their egg allergy, but for those who don’t, avoiding eggs and all of the products that contain ...

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the GM chicken for the production of Kanuma “shows that the ATryn goats weren’t just a one-off,” says Jay Cormier, a lawyer at Hyman, Phelps and ...

Researchers Engineer Hens that Make Drugs in EggsScientists at the Roslin Institute, which produced Dolly the cloned sheep, have genetically engineered chickens to produce drugs in their egg whites.

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 ...

The chicken egg has a storied history in medicine. Even today, millions of ordinary fertilized eggs are each punctured with a drill and injected with flu virus to make vaccines. Now, scientists at the ...