The idea of resurrecting long-lost direwolves sounds like pure fantasy—something out of Game of Thrones—yet Colossal Biosciences insists science is catching up with myth. Chief science officer Beth ...

An interstate poaching gang's arrest and seizure of big cat bones near Ranthambore Tiger Reserve has raised concerns. DNA ...

Creating a synthetic human genome has the possibilities of improving human healthspans, but it also comes with extremely ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast instruction manual tells our cells to do. Most of the genome remains mysterious, ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson's disease that's caused by a ...

The palila once existed throughout the entire island chain. Now the species can only be found on a small region of Mauna Kea ...

Scientists have found 473 human genes that behave like on/off switches, revealing links to cancer, immune conditions, and ...

Madison County authorities announced they had identified Wynona "Wendy" Michel's body, which was found in 1990, using a lab ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, ...