The concept of cloning pets has stepped off the big screen into reality. Making a genetic replica of your precious dog or cat ...

A landmark study has become the first to review the complete history of animal cloning, concluding that it is already a viable conservation tool, but one that's being held back by common ...

Against this backdrop, the Global Times has launched the Deep Focus series, focusing on specific issues in current social ...

Preservation of animal genetic material poses its own unique ... hair or skin samples. With cloning techniques pioneered in the 1990s, DNA extracted from these non-reproductive cells can be ...

The potential impact ranges even further than just wolves; blood cloning could be used to preserve and even restore genetic ...

In 1999, when our laboratory announced the cloning of Galileo (a bull obtained from blood cells 2) we were charged with a criminal offence 3, a verdict that was overturned six months later by a ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went extinct about 12,500 years ago, back to life.

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

How cloning works The harvesting of cells from a dog can be done when the animal is still alive or after it has died, so long as the cells are collected within a certain amount of time — fewer ...

A US company claims to have brought an extinct species of wolf back from extinction. The dire wolf last roamed the American ...