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  • World’s first “de-extinction” is accomplished

    World’s first “de-extinction” is accomplished

    Beth Shapiro, who literally wrote the book on de-extinction while she was a professor at UC Santa Cruz and is currently on leave from the university while she serves as Colossal’s Chief Science Officer, helped the company to de-extinct the dire wolf. She and Colossal’s CEO, Ben Lamm, have argued that the technologies they are…

  • Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought, study shows

    Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought, study shows

    Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, no matter what is happening in the environment around them. New research from the Braingeneers reveals that this traditional way of thinking…

  • David Deamer named 2024 AAAS fellow

    David Deamer named 2024 AAAS fellow

    Emeritus Genomics Institute affiliate David Deamer was awarded the lifetime honor along with UCSC Professors Theodore Holman and Raphael Kudela. Deamer researched the foundational science needed to create nanopore sequencing, a revolutionary method for reading DNA and RNA.

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Last modified: Mar 03, 2025