Surrogate

Rare breeds of chickens could soon come from entirely different types of hens. The University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute ​used gene editing techniques to create surrogate hens that grow up to produce eggs with all the genetic information of different breeds.

A human mechanical surrogate is part of a program by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create robots, avatars, and animatronic surrogates for military training.

The last known mammoth lived around 4500 years ago, but if scientists in Japan are successful then we might be able to meet one; research to resurrect these awesome creatures has begun again in earnest following a new scientific breakthrough..

In what could be the first step towards same-sex couples having their own genetic children, reproductive scientists have produced male and female mice from two fathers using stem cell technology.

Surrogate robots - like those in the movie starring Bruce Willis - might be closer than you think. Two experts give their opinions on what we can expect in the future.