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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...