Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

By Spencer Joseph Click here for updates on this story LOGAN, Utah (KSTU) -- It's the dream of every father to provide the ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to ...

The research looked specifically at blood stem cells, which live in the bone marrow and make different types of blood cells.

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...

But don’t get carried away – nobody said conducting research was easy! Hard work alone isn’t enough if you don’t have the right genetic instructions as well as a combination of money, time as well as ...

The genetic variant reportedly would not have been detectable through standard screening, and the donor is said to currently be in good health. "The identified mutation is one that could not have ...

ABSTRACT: Soil DNA studies often present a misleading view of microbial communities by failing to distinguish between live and dead bacterial cells. There is a critical gap in research on how the ...

In this light, the project represents a remarkable demonstration of genetic engineering, rather than a literal revival of an extinct species. That said, this is still an extraordinary achievement.

Then the scientists took blood cells from a living gray wolf and used CRISPR to genetically modify them in 20 different sites, said Colossal’s chief scientist Beth Shapiro. They transferred that ...