Bioscience

We’re edging closer to seeing a live mammoth for the first time. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of resurrecting extinct species, has made a breakthrough in creating elephant stem cells.

A new study is shaking up the world of evolutionary biology by offering some of the first evidence of menopause in a wild, non-human primate population. The findings complicate pre-existing ideas around the evolutionary function of menopause.

The secret to pulling off long-term manned space missions is biomanufacturing – at least, that's the argument presented by scientists at Berkeley Lab who believe that synthetic biology techniques could produce a significant portion of fuel and augment food and drug supplies during missions to Mars.

VISCERAL is an exhibit that features works of art incorporating living tissue.

Scientists have successfully wired a state-of-the-art artificial hand to existing nerve endings in the stump of a severed arm to create an intelligent artificial prosthetic hand with all basic features displayed by a real one.