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A project claims it will make leather from lab-grown T-Rex skin, providing a "cruelty-free" alternative for making goods like luxury purses.

Science & Energy

Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at the "de-extinction" startup Colossal Biosciences studied mammoth DNA to recreate their woolly hair in lab mice.

Science & Energy

Scientists Modified Genes In Mice to Give Them Traits of Woolly Mammoths, and the Results Are Frankly Adorable

By Frank Landymore

After three years of testing in the field, scientists in China claim that they've identified a way to engineer transgenic rice that needs less fertilizer.

Science & Energy

Scientists Gene Hack Rice to Need Way Less Fertilizer and Boost Yields

By Frank Landymore

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who were recently declared deceased from brain death.

Doctors Transplant Beating Pig Hearts Into Dead Human Bodies

By Frank Landymore

David Bennet Sr. passed away at the University of Maryland Medical Center after he received an experimental pig heart transplant in January.

Man Who Received Experimental Pig Heart Transplant Dies

By Tony Ho Tran

One of the world's predominant futurists believes that we're not too far off from breaking the genetic mold.

Expert Says Children Will Soon Have More than Two Biological Parents

By Noor Al-Sibai

A biotech startup helmed by provocative Harvard geneticist George Church has secured $15 million in funding to bring back woolly mammoths.

Science & Energy

George Church Has Raised $15M to Bring an Elephant-Mammoth Hybrid to Life. Could It Actually Work?

By Simon Spichak

Researchers have released into the wild a strain of genetically engineered diamondback moths that could suppress the pest population in a sustainable way.

Scientists Release Genetically Engineered Moths for First Time

By Kristin Houser

A fungus genetically modified to produce a spider toxin that quickly kills mosquitoes could help end the spread of malaria.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Splice Spider Gene Into Fungus to Kill Mosquitoes

By Kristin Houser

A genetically modified salmon swims next to a normal salmon of the same age.

Science & Energy

FDA Allows Genetically Modified Salmon Imports in the US

Researchers are gene-hacking plants to make them gigantic. The idea is that it could vastly increase food yields for farmers.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Gene-Hacking Plants to Make Them Enormous

By Jon Christian

Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global Warming

Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global Warming

You Can Now Genetically Engineer Your Own Mutant Frogs For $499

Science & Energy

You Can Now Genetically Engineer Your Own Mutant Frogs For $499

By Kristin Houser

An African nation has agreed to let researchers release genetically engineered mosquitoes into the wild as part of a plan to eradicate malaria.

Health & Medicine

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are About to Fly Free in Africa

By Kristin Houser

Two teams of researchers have used gene-editing tool CRISPR to decrease the number of chromosomes in baker's yeast from 16 to one or two.

Science & Energy

Engineers Use CRISPR to Create A New Species With Just One Chromosome

By Kristin Houser

De-Aging Doggo: Harvard Startup Wants to Give Goodest Dogs Longer Lives

Health & Medicine

De-Aging Doggo: Harvard Startup Wants to Give Goodest Dogs Longer Lives

By Claudia Geib