A seed bank in England marks 25 years of preserving the world’s plant diversity
On Oct. 20, 2025, the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, located deep underground beneath…
Chinese scientists successfully clone yak
On Jul. 12, 2025, researchers in china announced that a cloned yak was born via cesarean section on…
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Colossal Targets Moa as Its Next Species Restoration Milestone
On Jul. 8, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the moa as its next de-extinction focus, continuing its mission to…
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
On Jun. 25, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a…
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
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Colossal Biosciences announces de-extinction of dire wolf
On Apr. 7, 2025, scientists at Colossal Biosciences announced the successful de-extinction of the dire wolf with the…
Europe steps up recruitment of U.S. scientists
On April 3, France’s Université Paris-Saclay said it is one of dozens of European institutions ramping up efforts…
Landmark Study Highlights Cloning as a Proven Conservation Tool for Species on the Brink
On April 2, 2025, Wildlife conservation nonprofit Revive & Restore published a landmark study in the peer-reviewed journal…
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75% of U.S. scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
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Scientists from Colossal Biosciences genetically engineer mice with extinct woolly mammoth
On Mar. 4, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced that its scientists have simultaneously edited seven genes in mice embryos…
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Genome sequencing of ‘Fuji’ apple clonal varieties reveals genetic mechanism of spur-type morphology
On Nov. 21, 2024, a research team from China reported a fully phased genome assembly of ‘Fuji’ apple,…
Cloned Black-Footed Ferret Breeds Naturally and Births 2 Healthy Kits
On Nov. 1, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and conservation partners announced the first-ever birth…
First Comprehensive Assessment of Pando Aspen Clone Revealed Critical Threats
On Oct. 22, 2024, Utah State University researchers Paul Rogers and Darren McAvoy announced they have conducted the…
De-extinction company claimed it has nearly complete Tasmanian tiger Genome
On Oct. 17, 2024, Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company, announced that it has a…
CSIRO scientists Sequenced first full genome of critically endangered ‘Walking’ Australian Spotted handfish
On Oct. 8, 2024, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency,…
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asian history month
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month celebrates the scientific accomplishments of several firsts, from the first chemo…
University of Illinois and Universidade de Sao Paulo develop first transgenic cow to produce human insulin in her milk
On Mar. 13, 2024, an unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the…
First clone of endangered Przewalski’s horse born in conservation effort to save the species
On Aug. 6, 2020, the world’s first successfully cloned endangered Przewalski’s horse was born. Revive & Restore, San…
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Moratorium on heritable genome editing published in Nature
On Mar. 13, 2019, Eric Lander, Franooise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven…
Monkey twins first primate clones made by the method that developed Dolly
On Jan. 24, 2018, Chinese scientists announced they had produced two genetically identical long-tailed macaques using the same…
OHSU scientist successfully modified DNA in human embryos
On Jul. 27, 2017, OHSU announced that Shoukhrat Mitalipov, an OHSU biologist, had successfully modified defective DNA in…
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USPTO implemented the first-inventor-to-file provisions of the America Invents Act
On Mar. 16, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented the first inventor to file (FITF)…
Utah State University Scientist Identified World’s Largest Organism
On Sept. 30, 2010, Utah State University geneticist Karen Mock announced that testing of a forest-size collection of…
OHSU scientists first to successfully create primate embryonic stem cells
On Nov. 14, 2007, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Oregon National Primate Research Center announced they…
First cloned horse was born in North America
On Mar. 13, 2005, Paris Texas, the first cloned horse in North America was born at the College…
The world’s first cloned horse was born
On May 28, 2003, the world’s first cloned horse named Prometea was born at the Laboratory of Reproductive…
The first member of the horse family was cloned
On May 4, 2003, University of Idaho-Utah State University researchers became the first in the world to clone…
The banteng, an endangered species, was cloned for the second time
On Apr. 1, 2003, the birth of a cloned banteng from a surrogate mother cow was announced by…
Dolly, a female domestic sheep that became the first mammal to be cloned, was euthanised in Scotland
On Feb. 14, 2003, a CT scan was performed on Dolly and it was determined that tumours were…
The banteng, an endangered species, was cloned for the first time
In 2002, the banteng, an endangered species, was cloned for the first time. Bantengs, or Bali cattle (Bos…