In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

Scientists are seeking permission to generate human embryonic stem cells to study ... as successfully demonstrated in a mouse model 11. As the cells correspond to individual patients, they would ...

a mixture of both human and Neanderthal features suggesting a “hybrid” between the two evolutionary relatives. For example, the child’s lower limbs were much shorter than those of a modern ...

The laboratory mouse is a hybrid: its genome is a mosaic of all three subspecies. Bred for genetic uniformity, it is less varied genetically than its wild counterparts, and its gene pool contains only ...

In an era when artificial intelligence increasingly permeates our daily lives, a new paradigm is due to emerge: hybrid intelligence. This concept represents the powerful synthesis of human ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago, during the last ice age. But for now, ...

Raising and breeding the hybrid animals, they say, could imperil living animals used as surrogates. “While we know a lot about mouse genetics ... including human ones, in order to conduct ...