The farmyard chicken has emerged as an unlikely lynchpin in the research to protect its endangered wild cousins - and even ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

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February 22 saw a big scientific breakthrough with the successful cloning of a mammal for the first time in 1997. Dolly was ...

In a world-first, scientists in China have successfully created mice with two biological fathers. The mice not only survived birth but grew into adulthood, marking a significant step in understanding ...

The quest to rescue nearly extinct rhino Two rhinos munch serenely on grass as the sun rises over Mount Kenya, oblivious to the massive global endeavour to prevent them being the last of their kind.

The dodo and passenger pigeon are among extinct bird ­species that could be brought back to life thanks to gene editing and cross-breeding. A new US project aims to use the humble chicken to revive ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aiming to reduce the costs of in vitro fertilization, a medical ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to the new ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers report the successful in vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

Yeah, being an outsider often gets a bad rap, but here's the thing: some of the most innovative, creative, and influential ...