5 latest biotechnology breakthroughs, from genome sequencing to microbiome manipulation, revolutionizing medicine, ...

Competent cells—bacterial cells engineered to efficiently uptake foreign DNA—are at the heart of modern molecular biology ...

When it comes to morality, Americans don’t see much wrong with using birth control or getting a divorce, but few support ...

B-cell cloning is especially suited for therapeutics due to its speed and the diversity of antibodies it can generate. The downside is its complexity and cost.

Unlike reproductive cloning, the attempt to clone a human child, therapeutic cloning is a process of growing cells, using a patient's own DNA that is inserted it into an unfertilized egg cell to ...

After more than 15 years of failures, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996. They transplanted genetic material from ...

Dr. Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean researcher who claimed to have cloned human cells, fabricated evidence for all of that research, according to a report released early today by a Seoul National ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- The now-disgraced South Korean researcher who stunned the scientific community with his claim to have cloned human embryonic stem cells faked his results, relying on ...