With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.

You’re enjoying a refreshing strawberry smoothie, its rich red color swirling in the glass, thanks to genetic engineering ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal ...

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences had the world howling about dire wolves. But for ethicists, the question is our ...

Globally, people get animal protein mostly from chickens, with pigs and cattle in second and third place. A 2023 report ...

Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis—a cable bacteria discovered along the coast of Oregon—has the remarkable ability to conduct electricity. According to researchers, this bacteria “stands out from ...

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms.

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms ... using such transgenic techniques is not favorable for food products ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ...

In mid-April 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had recommitted to ending animal testing at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — an initiative ...

For example, political leaders criticizing studies of “transgender mice” propagate misinformation, since these studies are actually of transgenic mice—those in which genetic material from ...

Transgenic organisms are generated in the laboratory for research purposes, as per the National Human Genome Research Institute. Fact-checkers in the U.S. reported that it might not have been ...