RIKEN researchers have demonstrated the protective effects of a specific genetic mutation against Alzheimer's disease in ...

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves ...

Investigators have developed STITCHR, a new gene editing tool that can insert therapeutic genes into specific locations without causing unwanted mutations. The system can be formulated completely as ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals' stock is soaring today on news the FDA is planning on phasing out some animal testing, replacing ...

This superstition about black cats and other black animals in general has shaped people’s preferences about animals. It’s left its mark on things such as lower adoption rates for black cats and ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...