When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

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LITTLE ROCK — Scientists report that they have reconstructed the genome of Neanderthals, a human species that was driven to extinction some 30,000 years ago, probably by the first modern humans to ...

A scientist is looking for a woman to act as a surrogate mother to a Neanderthal baby. Professor George Church plans to use DNA from fossil bones to reconstruct the DNA of a Neanderthal and ...

You know a story has gone viral when the gang at Taiwan's Next Media Animation makes fun of it — and such is the case with Harvard geneticist George Church's recent comments about the prospects for ...