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

Baby Boom

Meet Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret cloned from an animal that died 30 years ago.

For the First Time, Scientists Clone Endangered Species

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.

Everyone Gets One!

Rx/Medicines

Can a "pharmaceutical cocktail," made from the antibodies of a recovered patient, protect against the coronavirus? 

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

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.

Costly Kitty

"If I tell you I wasn’t disappointed, then I would be lying to you."

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

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

Meet Garlic

It can already clone cats' bodies. Next, it wants to clone their minds.

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

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.

Reforestation

Stem cells and 3D printing are here to save your scalp.

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

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.

Morbid Modernism

Here are our predictions — from vengeful sex robots to off-brand spacesuits.

7 Ways to Die in the Future

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

Cruel Practice

"All cloned animals have shorter life spans and many more health problems..."

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

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

Clone Zone

Should we stamp out clones of Grumpy Cat, or let her rest in peace? 

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

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.

*Whinnying Intensifies*

An ancient foal may have been so well-preserved that viable cells from it can be cloned.

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

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

Clone Wars

The goal is to stamp out perfect, identical K-9 units.

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

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

Special Species

The species could help us curb global warming — if we can resurrect it.

Scientists Just Came Closer Than Ever to Cloning a Woolly Mammoth

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