A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

Colossal Biosciences, powered by AI and amplified by Hollywood's megaphone, is proving that the story of extinction doesn't ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

But will their next project fly?They want to bring back one of the largest birds to ever walk the Earth -- and we mean ...

Colossal Biosciences, the startup that brought back the dire wolf, is now focusing on New Zealand's giant moa.

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...