Month: April 2014
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De-extinction: Building future worlds with extinct organisms?
By Guy Lasnier, UCSC Public Information Office The notion of de-extinction, using genetic engineering to bring back species that have become extinct, is attracting wide attention with recent articles in the New York Times and National Geographic and an episode of the National Science Foundation funded program Quest produced by KQED in San Francisco. Proposals for de-extinction have sparked conversations in…
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DNA Day on April 25 commemorates completion of Human Genome Project
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at UC Santa Cruz is hosting an informative celebration of DNA Day, a national event on Friday, April 25, that commemorates the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. The DNA Day…