Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

A team of scientists led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have released one of the world's largest ...

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

The immediate reaction to the Colossal Biosciences’ claims from a broad section of the scientific community was highly ...

Dire wolves once roamed North America before going extinct roughly 10,000 years ago. They were about the same size as the ...

Colossal Biosciences' feat of genetic engineering has people talking, but not every scientist is on board with its claim of ...

David Markowitz, a scientist who helped coordinate the project, said the data, published April 9 in the journal Nature marks “a watershed moment for neuroscience, comparable to the Human Genome ...

The researchers call it a foundational step, like how the Human Genome Project that provided the first gene mapping eventually led to gene-based treatments. Mapping a full mouse brain is one next ...