Genetic engineering will soon allow scientists to manipulate human embryos in ways that could allow parents to design their child, choosing its gender and its genetic makeup to maximize desired human ...

Stanford researchers have developed Microbe-Independent Deep Assembly and Screening – MIDAS – a polymerase chain ...

Cloning is one of those ethical problems that seemed terribly urgent twenty years ago, but which, for some reason, dropped off of our collective radar. Ever wonder why? Well now the New Atlantis has ...

Cloning promises genetic copies, but a growing body of research across dogs, mice, cattle, and primates shows that clones begin diverging from their donors almost immediately. Thousands of unique ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that ...