Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

A key cancer-fighting gene in leukemia is switched off—not broken—and scientists from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have found a way to switch it back on. In a study published in Science Translational ...

A research team in Mato Grosso do Sul has built the world’s largest jaguar biobank and is pushing toward the first-ever ...

Learn how the Amazon molly, an all-female fish that reproduces asexually, uses gene conversion to maintain healthy DNA and ...

Even back then, scientists were puzzled. Many prediction models suggested this fish shouldn’t survive beyond roughly 10,000 ...

And the 58th generation of mice did not survive, establishing for the first time that mammals cannot be cloned an infinite number of times. This method of cloning clones had raised the hope of being ...

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held belief that asexual ...

What if the first-ever cloned jaguar were born within the next few years? Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie? Not to the scientists at Reprocon research group, based at the Federal University ...

MIT Technology Review discovered that the stealth startup’s founder John Schloendorn also pitched a startling, medically ...

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held ...

As the generations dragged on past the 27th iteration, the birth rate began to silently collapse. By the 57th generation, a mere 0.6 percent of the cloned embryos survived. The 58th generation ...

Losing a beloved furry family member is the hardest part of being a pet owner. Inevitably, man’s best friend doesn’t live as ...