One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible. The Pyrenean ...

When Dolly the sheep – the first cloned mammal – was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked predictions of a sci-fi future filled with ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

SHE WAS BORN FROM A FERRET THAT DIED IN THE 1980S, AND THEN SCIENTISTS FOUND THE ONE THING SHE COULD NOT DO The animal she ...

A year ago, Colossal Biosciences introduced to the world their version of the dire wolf, an animal extinct for over 12,500 years. The company’s scientists are hoping to bring back the woolly mammoth ...

The frozen male foal of an extinct horse that lived 30,000 to 40,000 years ago was found in the Batagaika crater in the East Siberian taiga in the Sakha Republic in Russia a few weeks ago, according ...

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Yes, you can pay $50,000 to clone a pet. But others are using the technology to rescue endangered species. This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that ...

Creating genetically identical copies can veer from the cool to the creepy. This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based ...

One of North America’s most endangered species is getting a new lease on life thanks to technological innovations. This past week, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...