In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

A study led by UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators reveals how melanoma, the deadliest form of skin ...

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

A new blood-based cloning method from Colossal Biosciences is offering fresh hope for Jurassic Park -like endangered species.

Babies could be born without a biological mother after scientists created functional human eggs from skin. American ...

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

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

That is, until apparently Disney head honcho Bob Iger poo-pooed the idea after an eager Lucasfilm presented it to him, with a ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Sir John Gurdon, the biologist, who has died aged 92, successfully cloned a tadpole from a single cell in 1962, paving the ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...