Word: extinct
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...scientists from Penn State University announced that they had succeeded in piecing together the majority of the woolly mammoth's genome, bringing the world one step closer to the Jurassic Park fantasy of using recovered DNA to bring an extinct species back to a shaggy, lumbering existence...
...wonders of eBay allowed the scientists to purchase a $130 bag of 20,000-year-old woolly-mammoth hair from a vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an extinct animal's DNA. DNA in general breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind...
...genetic sequencing of the woolly mammoth, meanwhile, raises the similarly fraught but increasingly realistic possibility of cloning extinct animals, a process that Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg has called "the science of eventuality." Still, scientist Stephan Schuster, who led the team at Penn State, isn't holding his breath. "What I'm trying to say is that there is a workable route to do that, but it is at this time technically, and cost-wise and time-wise, not feasible." Guess we'll just have to wait for Jurassic Park...
...This brand of fervid romance packed 'em in for the first 60 years of feature films, then went nearly extinct, replaced by the young-male fetishes of space toys and body-function humor. Twilight says to heck with that. It jettisons facetiousness for a liturgical solemnity, and hardware for soft lips. It revives the precept that there's nothing more cinematic than a close-up of two beautiful people about to kiss. The movie's core demographic is so young, its members may not know how uncool this tendency has become. But for them, uncool is hot. And seeing Twilight...
...believes that the answer to treating stomach ulcers may lie with the gastric brooding frog. “It’s mostly the ugly and the small that are keeping life going,” he said. Unfortunately for humanity, this species of frog has been extinct for over a decade. In a book signing Thursday night at the Harvard Coop, Chivian, the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School stressed the importance of preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Co-authored by Aaron Bernstein, his book addresses...