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Tyrades! By Danny Tyree If you’re the average person, you say things like “I wish they’d bring back ‘ABC’s Wide World of Sports’ and full-service gas stations.” If you’re more like Harvard University geneticist George Church, you say things like “Wouldn’t it be a hoot if someone brought back the long-extinct Neanderthal caveman species?” Church (whose research in the Eighties
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Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Remember actor James Garner and the “Beef: real food for real people” commercials? We may soon see the “Beef: ambiguous food for ambivalent people” campaign. According to CNN, Dr. Mark Post, professor of vascular physiology at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, is turning bovine stem cells into artificial muscle (i.e. meat) in a petri
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Tyrades! By Danny TyreeAccording to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news service, Japanese researchers are launching a 5-year project to bring the long-extinct woolly mammoth back to life through cloning technology. (Mammoths began dying out around 10,000 years ago, near the end of the Ice Age.)Believe it or not, Lindsay Lohan was one of the forces behind the project to “Bring
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