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Blog / Copying Canines: Would You Clone Your Dog?

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 / Kasey Skinner /

We all know it’s hard to say goodbye to a beloved dog, but is cloning pups the answer? Here we dive into the science of canine cloning and its ethical implications (complete with cute puppy pictures).

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Blog / Climate change and environmental justice: a case study in ethics and science

March 17, 2019April 7, 2019 / Allison Lacko /

A key part of the fight against climate change is to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs). So, when a massive corporation reduces their emissions by an amount equivalent to taking 900,000…

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Blog / Your Guide to the CRISPR Babies

March 4, 2019April 2, 2019 / Kasey Skinner /

Imagine a future in which we can edit genes like a sentence in Microsoft Word. We could highlight, delete, and correct a section of a gene known to cause disease,…

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Blog / Synthetic Chimeras: Separating Science from Science Fiction

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 / Nicholas Tay /

Earlier this year, scientists from the Belmonte lab at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA) reported the first successful grafting of human stem cells into pig embryos. In other words, they were…

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