Animal Biotechnology

Eusocial insects are among the most successful living creatures on Earth. Found in terrestrial ecosystems across the globe (on every ...

Scientists are calling for revamped regulation of genetic modification, especially the new techniques not subject to current rules ...

My youngest sister Kaley is a senior in high school, and she is taking a few college classes this semester ...

Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro ...

What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the ...

I was really excited to watch the Intelligence Squared debate. I've been looking forward to it for seemingly ages. Bottom ...

The laboratory mouse really lies at the foundation of numerous life science studies, but is it an appropriate model in ...

In a provocative cross-species experiment, scientists are striving to rewrite the pig genome so the animal grows lungs that could ...

I’m a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London, and I live, sleep and dream mammoths. I doubt that ...

Domestic cats have a reputation as being "marginally tame and lacking in the servile sycophantic affect of the dog." Added ...

Patients often request and use antibiotics thinking they have no long-term effects of the medications. But work on the human ...

A Russian group working with scientists is set to launch what they call the world’s largest and most comprehensive long-term ...

Scientists have created a mind-control system that allows a person to alter the genes in a mouse through the power ...

Megan Brown sells beef from grass-fed cows, but the Butte County rancher’s choice is motivated more by the higher price ...

To treat victims of snakebites, it's important to know which type of snake did the biting. Now, a new test ...

Four years ago, while searching for fish fossils on Madagascar, paleontologists came upon what proved to be a well-preserved cranium ...

Avigen, a 'wellness' company which promotes antioxidant supplements for pets, says it has done what science cannot - they have ...

Ebola patients show markedly different reactions to the virus. Some survive exposure; others die quickly, while still others experience hemorrhages ...

Human Y has been described as a genetic "hall of mirrors" riddled with several regions of large palindromes. Believe it ...

The Asian citrus psyllid carrying the huanglongbing bacterium is a devastating combination vector that causes a lethal citrus disease which is a threat ...

Researchers have brought an ancient viral genome back to life. The reconstituted viral genome came from 700-year-old caribou feces frozen ...

At the beginning of the year, I reported that Whole Foods had stopped selling Chobani yogurt over a spat the grocery store ...

A longstanding question among scientists is whether evolution is predictable. A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara may have ...

A Golden retriever that inherited a genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy doesn't have the disease, giving scientists clues to ...

Eat all of the pizza you want? Unlikely, but some people do have a biological disadvantage when it comes to ...

A predator protected from other predators, the ladybug would seem to have the perfect insect life—were it not for wasps ...

Conventional agriculture is under attack by organic and anti-GMO activists for contributing to antibiotic resistance as the result of animals ...