Scientists Report DNA Transplant
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Scientists said yesterday they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other.
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It goes against the current scientific conventional wisdom. But a suprising new study suggests that therapeutic cloning may be more successful using the most mature adult cells
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Scientists have discovered a new type of  embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up  research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for  cures to a range of diseases.
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Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare disorder by transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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A $156 million grant for DNA sequencing at the Washington University School of Medicine is part of an effort to unlock the mystery of the origins of cancer within the body, university officials said Monday.
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have patented the method they plan to use.
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A team of scientists in Glasgow say they have devised a new method of attacking cancer cells.
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NEW YORK  - Tiny particles of silica can  act as DNA carriers, providing a non-viral method of gene  therapy, new research shows.
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Heart valves, bone and ligaments used in transplants are considered safe, but could be made even more so with high-tech DNA tests that can spot a wide array of potentially deadly viruses, researchers report in a study published today.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a big step closer after US researchers said they had successfully created embyonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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A fertility technique that repairs a woman&#39;s faulty eggs using DNA transferred from elsewhere in her body has led to the births of 20 children, scientists have revealed.
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A team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute reported yesterday that they have successfully treated two cancer patients using gene therapy, the introduction of genes into the human body for medical purposes.
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Scientists at Washington University have transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells into diabetic monkeys, which could have major implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans.
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British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
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U.S. researchers said on Sunday they  had found a more efficient way to clone mice, and said their  experiment solved a basic question about cloning science --  whether it truly is possible to clone animals from mature  cells.