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By Nadine Yousif,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.  The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past.  But the success of this procedure so far has ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...

By Nadine Yousif & Mike Wendling BBC News One person has died and 21 people were wounded in a shooting in Missouri at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. Officials said they treated eight victims who were in immediately life-threatening condition and seven others who had suffered injuries that could prove life-threatening. Nine children were ...

By Nadine Yousif BBC News At least three people have died and over half a million homes are without power after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada. Strong winds flipped cars and knocked over homes in Florida, where several tornadoes were reported.  More than 1,300 flights in or out of the ...

By Nadine Yousif BBC News Four high school students accused of beating a classmate to death in Las Vegas have been formally charged with second-degree murder. Jonathan Lewis Jr, 17, died after a fight in an alleyway near his school, where as many as 10 of his classmates swarmed him.  Police said nine students in total have been arrested so ...