WASHINGTON - Cloning humans, or any other primates, may be impossible with today's techniques because of a fundamental molecular obstacle, say scientists trying to understand why attempts to clone ...

In the face of the very real cross of infertility that many couples face today, the Church instead promotes research into ...

Across the world, geneticists are exploring the frontier of resurrection biology — the attempt to bring extinct species back ...

A biotech company that hopes to resurrect extinct species said Wednesday that it has reached an important milestone: the creation of a long-sought kind of stem cell for the closest living relative of ...

The famed biologist's leadership in cloning Dolly the sheep marked a pivotal turning point for advances in regenerative medicine. reading time 2 minutes Sir Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company which bills itself as the world’s first de-extinction company, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct about 12 ...

Livestock cloning, predominantly executed via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), has been instrumental in both agricultural innovation and scientific research since the birth of Dolly in 1996. This ...

One of his early teachers called his scientific ambitions “ridiculous.” Undeterred, Dr. Gurdon went on to transform the understanding of DNA.