The year 2003 will celebrate two anniversaries of some significance to geneticists. The first of these – the publication of Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA back in 1953 – will ...

Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is ...

Scientists reckon by extracting a complete neanderthal genome it could be combined with human stem cells to clone a caveman ...

We describe conditions for rolling-circle amplification (RCA) of individual DNA molecules 5-7 kb in size by $>10^9-fold$, using φ 29 DNA polymerase. The principal difficulty with amplification of ...

The victims of extinction are countless and their killers numerous—but, in recent centuries, there’s been one obvious, enduring culprit: Homo sapiens. As humankind has increased in numbers and ...

Like a storyline pulled from the movie "Jurassic Park," a professor at Harvard University has outlined steps for cloning a long-extinct Neanderthal baby. One's first question may be, "Why would you ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical School report they have developed a new molecular technique that can be used to isolate thousands of long ...