Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

It was previously assumed that early hunters only killed woolly mammoths if they were already injured. The discovery of these resourceful traps firmly challenges that idea.

You are never going to ‘bring back’ a mammoth,” she added. Lab mice are commonly genetically engineered to have certain traits, including human ones, in order to conduct research on disease ...

This was not an easy task; the mammoth's genome has more than 4 billion base pairs of DNA. The human genome, in comparison, has only 3 billion. Scientists were "able to assemble the genome of a ...

we should point out the elephant (or mammoth) in the room: Tiny fluffy mice are a far cry from the enormous tusked beasts that roamed the Earth, before succumbing to a warming planet and human ...

for the human pathogen H. pylori (which can cause stomach ulcers). He’s also cofounded some 50 biotech companies. Church’s woolly mammoth dreams started off in his lab, with little thought of ...

Lamm clarifies that the company’s goal is to only license technologies for human use and to continue to focus on animal work within the company. Bringing back the mammoth would help slow the ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- While scientists near completion of the mammoth Human Genome Project to map the genetic makeup of the human race, another set of investigators is seeking volunteers to ...