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.

San Francisco-based biotech startup Pembient is developing what it hopes could be a solution to rhino poaching. It's inexpensive bioengineered rhino horn, which could out-compete the genuine item.

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.

Ant Farm Revolution contains an LED lamp, which allows users to project images of the ants onto their ceiling.

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

Researchers have devised a new way to assemble 3D artificial tissues by using "biological Legos".

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.

In an article in Bioscience Hypotheses, researchers suggest that hormones and chemicals resulting from happiness, depression and other mental states can affect our eggs and sperm, causing lasting changes in our children at the time of conception.