For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Researchers from Shandong Agricultural University, led by professors Zhang Xiansheng (second from left) and Su Yinghua (second from right), have revealed how a single plant cell can develop into a ...

A Miami resident cloned his Boston Terrier, Lucas, after the dog died of lymphoma, preserving their unique bond through a genetic replica. Luiz Hoinkis, who got Lucas in 2017, described the dog as his ...

While most research groups rely on organs from cloned, gene-edited pigs created through somatic cell nuclear transfer for pig-to-human transplantation, scientists at the Center for Innovative Medical ...

Background: Intercellular mitochondrial transfer has been documented to modulate cellular function in multiple disease contexts. Nevertheless, its occurrence and pathophysiological implications within ...

A team of researchers from Google Research and UC Santa Cruz released DeepSomatic, an AI model that identifies cancer cell genetic variants. In research with Children’s Mercy, it found 10 variants in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and fertilizing them with sperm. The work is a laboratory ...

Human eggs made from a volunteer’s skin DNA were fertilized in the lab on September 30, 2025, and some grew for nearly a week. A peer-reviewed study reports that early embryos formed, although most ...

Warning: This article contains discussion of baby loss which some readers may find distressing. A revolutionary new fertility treatment could allow women who no longer have their own eggs - either ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...