Makeshift mammoths and body-double dodos are on the way—but they won't be the genuine article.
Humans got a gene related to nasal height from mating with Neanderthals, new research finds.
The Zoonomia project is the largest collection of mammalian genomes ever assembled—but, sadly, the raccoon isn't…
The Siberian husky Balto saved a town from a diphtheria outbreak. Now he's helping reveal the genetics of working…
The world is full of survivors, like these species known for their radioresistance.
The prodigious composer had serious liver problems and a hepatitis infection sometime before he died in 1827.
Burn tests showed that new strains of cotton were able to self-extinguish after being set on fire.
Nearly 300 genomes from 2,000 years of Scandinavian history point at several new findings.
Some water-dwelling microbes actively feed off viruses, new research finds.
The genetic material is a million years older than the previous record-holder.
Pääbo’s 40-year career has yielded new technologies and a narrative of who we are as a species.
A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences.
A recent genetic analysis sheds new light on the origin of donkeys.
They are the second team in less than a month to claim having produced embryos from scratch.
Unrelated people with eerily similar appearances seem to share many genetic variations, a study has found.
Some scientists say the entire scientific community needs to reckon with how their research is too-easily co-opted…
These genetically modified tomatoes produce vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet light.
The tech giant previously barred any ads for stem cell therapies, FDA-approved or otherwise, though companies…
After years of work, a large team of researchers say they've deciphered the missing 8% of our genome.