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The Complicated Ethics of Genetic Engineering

September 3, 2021

Genes influence health and disease, traits and behavior. With new tools available to edit those genes, scientists are now working […]

‘De-extinction’ of the Woolly Mammoth: A Step Closer

By comparing DNA recovered from two long-dead individuals, a team of researchers have sequenced the species’s entire genome — effectively […]

Can Bringing Back Mammoths Help Stop Climate Change?

September 1, 2021

If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash-landed […]

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