A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

At first glance, it looked like a genetic error — so severe it should have crippled the animal. But instead, it helped turn ...

Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent ...

In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...

It's hoped cells collected from animal poo could be used to help support the conservation of endangered species in the future ...

Known as the cell’s engine, the mitochondria propels the sperm toward the egg, explained Dr. Houda Amor, a co-author of the ...

Previous mouse studies have shown that, when conditions in cells are normal, removing, or “knocking out,” any one of the ...

Many fields including biomedical research, forensics, and environmental monitoring rely on DNA extraction as a crucial process. DNA extraction marks the essential beginning of genetic information ...

The cells' DNA has exciting implications for conservationists. Scientists make astonishing find inside animal droppings at ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and ...