You’ve Got to See This Recreation of Dex’s Diner from Attack of the Clones
Image: Centerpoint Studios Lots of weird stuff happens in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Obi-Wan getting a clue at a 1950s-style diner owned by one of…
What It Will Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines
Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo…
What It’ll Take to Create 21st-Century Mammoths, Dodos, and Thylacines
Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction’ company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo…
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any…
Company Trying to Resurrect a Mammoth Makes a Stem Cell Breakthrough
Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research…
Brain Injection Stopped Progression of Multiple Sclerosis in Trial of 15 People
Research published this week describes a promising start to using stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis. In a small Phase I trial, patients who had stem cells directly injected into…
Stem Cell Clinics Are Selling Shady, Unproven Treatments for Long Covid
Shady stem cell clinics are still peddling false hope to people dealing with covid-19, new research this week suggests. The study found dozens of clinics selling stem cell treatments for…
Cloning Trailblazer Ian Wilmut, Known for Dolly the Sheep, Dies at 79
Sir Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the team which cloned Dolly the sheep, has died, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland confirmed in a statement on Monday. He…
Scientists Say They’ve Now Grown a Whole Human Embryo Model From Scratch
A team of scientists in Israel say they’ve accomplished an incredible feat of biology: The creation of a completely human-like embryo model without the need for a sperm or egg.…
Endangered ferret is cloned from a long-dead ferret
Meet “Elizabeth Ann.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday the successful birth of a cloned black-footed ferret. Scientists cloned Elizabeth Ann from a ferret that died 30 years…