In 2024 and 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of pups they called dire wolves. Using edited gray wolf DNA, scientists altered 20 genes to mimic dire wolf traits. But no actual dire wolf ...

Genetic engineering is a key technology for boosting agricultural yields. However, it still has a bad reputation.

Because of existing UN conventions and protocols, according to environmental law experts, a moratorium would have limited practical impact. For that reason, this debate feels like an era-defining ...

University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic ...

Also, there’s still no easy way to test AI designs for larger genomes. While some viruses can “boot up” from just a DNA ...

In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of ...

When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics—tumor ...

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

Hospitals may soon have a faster option, thanks to a groundbreaking system built in part by Sneha Goenka, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton—and MIT Technology ...

New findings from the humble pigeon may help in an ambitious project to bring back the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, ...

(CNN) - A Texas company says it’s a step closer to bringing back the dodo bird from extinction. The dodo bird has been ...

Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome (MSMDS) is a rare condition associated with stroke, aortic dissection ...