BIOTECHNOLOGY is becoming dangerously close to raging out of control. Scientists are engaging in ever increasingly macabre experiments that threaten to mutate nature and the human condition at the ...

The Horrors of Plum Island | Hybrids, Human Experiments and Weaponized Killer Insects In July 2008, the carcass of an animal washed up on the beach at Montauk Point Long Island. Local beachcombers are ...

Science-fiction novels have often foreshadowed very real scientific debates. Laurence Gonzales' new novel Lucy, about the trials of a human-animal... Human-Animal Hybrids In 'Lucy,' A Look To The ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...

All those headlines about geneticists creating “chimeras” in the lab — mingling human and animal DNA for experiments — have finally spawned a new flick. But Splicers, coming out next year with stars ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for 21 days, and in that time their tiny hearts started beating. The findings ...

The Proto-Elamites invented cylinder seals — cylinders that were engraved with figural scenes and were used for administrative purposes — many of which depict animals in human-like poses. The Kneeling ...

April 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial intelligence, when developing monoclonal antibody therapies and ...