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Each can comes secured in a "lab-sealed specimen jar," containing Ozzy's signature, and of course, a sample of his spit.

You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA in Twelve Easy Payments

Bovine beauty pageants help determine the most desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing meat farming for good.

Science & Energy

Brazilian “Supercows” Reportedly Close to Achieving World Domination

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Montana rancher is now facing time in prison for using cloned embryos to create enormous, hybrid sheep that he sold to hunters and breeders.

Science & Energy

Man Gets Prison Sentence for Cloning Giant Sheep

By Frank Landymore

According to a recent tweet, Lil Nas X would love to go all the way — and perform sexual acts with himself. But will science ever make his dream come true?

Lil Nas X Says He Wants to Clone Himself and Have Sex With the Copy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists cloned an endangered species for the first time with the successful birth of Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret.

Science & Energy

For the First Time, Scientists Clone Endangered Species

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese man paid $35,000 to have his cat cloned, only to receive a cat that, while biologically identical to the original, doesn't look like it.

Science & Energy

This Guy’s $35,000 Cat Clone Looks Nothing Like the Original

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.

Science & Energy

Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

By Kristin Houser

Scientists are closer than ever to a cure for baldness, thanks to cloned stem cells and 3D-printed scaffolding that could let new hairs take root.

Health & Medicine

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

By Dan Robitzski

These days, people tend to die from cancer, heart disease and accidents. Here are our guesses about all the ways we'll die in the future.

7 Ways to Die in the Future

By Sarah Marquart

Pet cloning results in animals with shorter life spans and many more health problems than non-cloned animals, according to one animal ecology professor.

Science & Energy

Pet Cloning Is Getting Cheaper — but It’s Still Horrifying

By Kristin Houser

We could mourn Grumpy Cat. Or we could embrace the latest in genetic technology and clone her, like Barbra Streisand's dogs.

Health & Medicine

Grumpy Cat Is Dead. We Have the Technology to Clone Her.

By Jon Christian

Siberian scientists conducted an autopsy of a 42,000-year-old foal of an extinct horse, and found that it's so well-preserved they may be able to clone it.

Scientists Plan to Clone Extinct Horse Using 42,000-Year-Old Blood

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials have cloned a top-performing police dog, state media announced, with the goal of stamping out genetically identical dog cops.

Science & Energy

China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production”

By Jon Christian

Researchers have coaxed biological reactions from the cells of a preserved wooly mammoth, putting us one step closer to cloning the extinct species.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Came Closer Than Ever to Cloning a Woolly Mammoth

By Kristin Houser

Hung-Chun Chang, the scientist who created five monkey clones of a gene-edited animal, defends his research in an interview with New Scientist.

Science & Energy

Scientist Defends Controversial Cloning of Gene-Edited Monkeys

By Kristin Houser