It happens regularly on Facebook: A friend’s post begins, “Do not accept any friend invitations from me!” Another Facebook account has been cloned. By now, most of us are savvy enough to be cautious ...

Human cloning is both scientifically and morally unethical, says Stephen E. Wear, associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care at the ...

“The cloned rhesus monkey has reached the age of 3,” says team member Falong Lu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. “So far, we haven’t observed any health issues in it by our routine ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits for COVID-19 use what’s known as gene cloning – not reproductive cloning – to detect the presence or absence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but social media posts ...

Twenty-seven years ago, Ty Lawrence began to be haunted by a slab of meat. The carcass, which he spotted at a slaughterhouse while doing research as a graduate student, defied the usual laws of nature ...