One notable success story is the cloning of Przewalski's horses, once extinct in the wild. Kurt, the first cloned ...

In the frozen reaches of the planet—glaciers, mountaintops, and icy groundwater—scientists have uncovered strange ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

Skin has the whole DNA of that particular animal. And when we freeze that down, we can freeze its entirety, and then when we ...

A previously unknown structure discovered in our cells could pave the way toward new treatments for various genetic disorders ...

Scientists have successfully used frozen human cells taken from nerve tissue to restore nerve conduction in an animal model of multiple sclerosis. “Such cells could potentially be used in humans ...

“The cells preserved at the Frozen Zoo are remote and distant, and not connected at to all the ecosystem. All it is, is the essence. But cells are life, and one of the questions is, what can we ...

A 'biorepository' of frozen animal cells on the moon could regenerate life, report scientists at Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC.

Its cells reach a temperature below the freezing point of water — chilled, but not enough for ice to form. Its metabolism slows so much it does not have to eat.