A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

The former NFL star says biotech firm Colossal Biosciences, which he invested in, cloned his pit bull mix using DNA collected ...

Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

The field of fish conservation is grappling with the complex challenges posed by human-modified landscapes. As habitats undergo rapid transformation due to ...

A collaboration between Brazilian and German researchers has led to a sunflower-based meat substitute that’s high in protein ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and University of California, San Francisco, scientists have developed an epigenetic editing platform that enables safe modification of multiple genes in primary ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The way the federal agents swarmed Jack Schubarth’s ranch in Montana on a ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been linked to social behavior in humans, Ian Traniello at the University of ...

Part lion, part goat, part serpent, the Chimera was a terrifying, fire-breathing monster capable of decimating cities, according to Greek mythology. Today, the term “chimera” has a much more ...