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De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers serve as nature’s freezers, archiving detailed records of past climates and ecosystems – including viruses.

A fungal pathogen that affects bananas kills the plant by occupying its vascular system, blocking water, and mineral transportation.

The societal implications of this technology are still vast. And researchers can already start exploring the ethics by engaging communities well ahead of time.

Why ethical discussions with the target communities should happen sooner rather than later

Scientists sequenced the largest known animal genome in a species of lungfish — ancient fish that breathe air.

Did you know that the bananas you eat today are not the same type as the ones people were eating a few generations ago? The banana you might have had with your breakfast today is a variety called the Cavendish banana, while the one that was in grocery stores up…

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.

Project to study all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths finds ‘two species in the act of being created from one’

Discovery offers unprecedented insight into the genetic makeup of animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.