biology
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Scientists Think They Could Resurrect an Extinct Rat but Don’t Really Want To
A team of scientists recently modelled the likelihood of hauling a species back from dead, using the Christmas Island rat, a large rodent that went extinct between 1902 and 1908, as their hypothetical subject.
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Massive New ‘Human Family Tree’ Includes 27 Million Ancestors
A team of scientists has combined modern and ancient genomes to build a new “genealogy of everyone,” in an achievement that sets the groundwork for future studies into our evolution and global spread.
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Scientists Created a Cyborg Fish Powered by Beating Human Heart Cells
The term cyborg conjures up images from Star Trek, RoboCop, and even The Six Million Dollar Man, and while we might get there someday, our first attempts at creating biohybrids are a lot simpler, but no less impressive, as demonstrated by this robotic fish powered by human heart cells.
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Researchers Develop COVID Test That Uses a Smartphone to Gets Results on the Cheap
If you’re also someone who’s waited in line for hours to get a COVID test — or faced similar frustrations trying to buy them at your local drugstore — then you’re in luck. A group of scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara say they’ve developed a new kind of COVID-testing system that only…