An international team of researchers has used genetic engineering to create the first ever “product-ready” antivenom for ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

The latest development out of Colossal Biosciences — the genetic engineering company trying to bring animals back from extinction that Semafor has covered before — is that it has successfully grown ...

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 ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Colossal Biosciences expands its de-extinction mission by acquiring Viagen, the world leader in animal cloning and species ...

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 ...

Sightings of the iconic species have been sparse since the early 20th century. The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company ...

Classical swine fever reduces productivity and harms animal welfare, but pigs have now been genetically edited to make them ...