Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans.

Once scientists have zeroed in on a specific segment of DNA, how do they produce enough copies of that segment for their research? In most cases, the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is their ...

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Researchers are using gene editing techniques to introduce beneficial traits like polled and disease resistance, as well as ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Scientists at a technology company said Sunday they have created human embryos through cloning, drawing criticism from President Bush and lawmakers and raising new ethical questions. Advanced Cell ...

To generate the hairpin primer, select a 'sense' sequence(s) of 22 nucleotides (nt) in length from the coding sequence of the gene of interest for each clone to be constructed. Only coding ...