Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via ...

The idea of human cloning was science fiction when it was first imagined. But in the last few decades, technological and scientific advances have made this a real possibility. Although the ethics of ...

In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines around the world after becoming the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell. Many commentators thought this would catalyze a golden age of ...

Researchers often call the polymerase chain reaction test – known as the PCR test – "the gold standard" for detecting the COVID-19 virus. The test is considered highly reliable and effective, and it ...

Over decades of covering the incredible advances being made in biology, I’ve seen how some ideas become fashionable, get intense media coverage for a few years, and then fade from public view again.