Lars Kenseth
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“When a species goes extinct, the role it once played in its ecosystem—as a fertilizer, forest disturber, predator, and so on—vanishes along with it.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“Church also figured out how to encode an HTML version of a book, one he’d cowritten, in a single drop of DNA,”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“There are all sorts of hormones from the mother that can affect the fetus when life starts to sprout.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“Later, back in the lab, Roy Weber, a professor in the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, spins the liquid in a vial to run tests on it, allowing him to see that the dark liquid was indeed full of red blood cells. But they had all broken open and released their hemoglobin—the molecule that carries oxygen in blood—out into the slurry.”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
“For example, virus-resistant genes could be inserted in the genome of a species that is dying from an infection, or genetic susceptibility to a disease could be altered with precision gene editing,”
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
― Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
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