Proponents of the use of synthetic biology say it could bring some species back from the brink of extinction and help fight ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...

The endangered Przewalski’s horse. Credit: Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo Earlier this year, a baby Przewalski’s horse was born at the San Diego Zoo. But this foal isn’t any ordinary foal, ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Scientists looking for a surefire way to stop mad cow disease are trying to clone cattle that are genetically engineered to resist the deadly brain-wasting illness. The ...

We used genetic strategies which have been proven valuable to decipher signaling pathways in comparatively simple organisms such as Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans, to dissect signaling network ...

A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made a shocking announcement to the world in 2018: He had secretly engineered the birth of the first gene-edited babies. The birth of the twins was seen as reckless ...

In southeastern Brazil, bovine beauty pageants help determine the most genetically desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing the meat farming industry as we know it. As The ...

A MAN’S LOVE FOR HIS DOG RAN SO DEEP, HE CLONED HER NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE. WXII 12 SARAH SOWERS BREAKS DOWN THE SCIENCE THAT MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE. ON THE OUTSIDE, THEY LOOK LIKE ANY THREE MONTH OLD ...

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