Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative ...
The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most of the scientists who gathered in Washington earlier this month to talk about human cloning agreed that cloning an entire human being–besides being morally questionable–was fraught with technical ...
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 ...
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 ...