Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Jefferson Genetics Project: Jefferson Middle School AT Science student, Cordell Simmons, discusses his presentation on GMO salmon to teacher, Erin Knapp. “OncoMice are genetically modified to have an ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

After the 'Game of Thrones' craze, the dire wolves are back, this time for real. The Texas-based biotech firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced that their genetic engineering project led to the ...

Scientists are expanding the genetic map of humanity. This week, a large team published the first wave of research from the Pangenome Project, an effort to better capture the diversity of people ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colossal and the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) embark on the world’s first effort to obtain the genetic code of the existing elephant lineage, of which all three species ...