The government is teaming up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company that claims to have revived extinct dire wolves, to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically ...
De-extinction could theoretically work in several ways. One way is by cloning an individual from an intact cell, or in other words, creating a genetically identical copy. Scientists clone animals by ...
In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington, DC suburbs this September, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) heard from the public on the question of whether a farm-raised Atlantic salmon named ...
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it has approved the first genetically modified food animal -- the AquAdvantage salmon, a fast-growing variety that is as nutritious and safe to ...
At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...