India's first gene-edited sheep recently turned a year old and researchers who developed it say it's doing well. Born on 16 ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...

Biotechnology has been used to improve crop performance for decades and growers have become familiar with how it works and why it matters. But for livestock producers, biotechnology, in the form of ...

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 ...

Nagoya University researchers discovered a gene that actively suppresses food-odor detection in roundworms after reproduction ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A new study that examined animal species with a cancer resistance gene could provide help for human cancer research. Scientists have long been intrigued by Peto’s Paradox, which ...

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 ...

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Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Quick Take Dog breeding genetics explain how dominant, additive, and recessive genes shape traits and disease risk in litters ...