Significant abnormalities observed in cloned mice help reinforce the need to continue to avoid the reproductive cloning of humans, a scientist said today (Wednesday 30 June 2004) at the 20th annual ...

Imagine if humans could do that—no need for a partner or complicated dating processes. Just think of the possibilities! wink, wink. Cloning in animals refers to asexual reproduction, where an organism ...

To draw in crowds to his lectures, Assistant Professor of Biology Vlad Douhovnikoff jokes that he sometimes call his talks, “Why Sex is Overrated.” The ecologist focuses his research on plants ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered a fish capable of cloning itself. The trickster in question is a small Portuguese fish that managed to steal an egg to do the deed. This is an example of ...

A DNA probing technique clarifies the mechanism behind clonal reproduction of female dojo loach fish, also providing insight into the ancestral origin of the clonal population. A DNA probing technique ...

The fungi responsible for toenail infections and athlete's foot may reproduce by making clones of itself. According to a new paper published Wednesday in Genetics, the genome of the fungus responsible ...

WHEN ANESTHESIA WAS DISCOVERED in the 9th century, there was speculation that It would rob humans of the transforming experience of suffering. (Alas, there's still enough to go around.) When, three ...

Back when it was no more than a cheesy science-fiction plot device, human cloning seemed like something that would eventually be revealed to a horrified world full-blown and fully grown–a monstrous ...