When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic break, she went into her bathroom and downed a whole bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform CPR to save her life.Around that same time more than a decade ago, the man who would become her husband, Dante Murry, also lost touch with […]
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You might have heard of the project to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. In 2021, the Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal announced their plans to use genetic engineering to recreate the animal and return it to the Arctic tundra, its original natural habitat. Mammoths aren’t the only de-extinction target of Colossal — they recently […]
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Most mammals, including humans, are diploid. That is, nuclear DNA (nrDNA) exists as pairs of chromosomes (humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, while mice have 20). This pair of chromosomes are homologous, in that the sequence of genes on both the chromosomes is the same. However, a gene that sits on a particular address (‘locus’) […]
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The Neolithic (~10000 BCE), human history witnessed a watershed: a transition from a nomadic lifestyle involving hunting-and-gathering to settled agriculture. The region where this took place – stretching all the way from Egypt in the East to Iraq in the West – is known as the ‘Fertile Crescent.’ This shift paved the way for humans […]
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