After more than 12,000 years, dire wolves are back. On April 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of three healthy dire wolf pups, marking the world’s first successful de-extinction of a ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

This topic explores the application of advanced biotechnological approaches—including genetic engineering tools such as ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

CRISPR-GPT, a large language model developed at Stanford Medicine, is accelerating gene-editing processes and increasing accessibility to CRISPR.

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In an unprecedented leap in scientific discovery, a new lifeform has been constructed using a mere 57 genetic instructions. This remarkable feat paves the way for boundless opportunities in biology, ...