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By Staff, GMWatch | 08.10.2025

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GMWatch has published a series of interviews with the late scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai, conducted in March 2002 by the journalist Andy Rowell, as part of his research for his book, Don't...

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This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 08.04.2025

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For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited cells and injected them into egg cells from a domestic dog ...

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How to Make Cloning Pay

By Pete Shanks | 07.23.2025

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The first mammal cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep, was born on July 5, 1996. She became a global star, but neither she nor British embryologist Ian Wilmut (her foster daddy) got rich, though Wilmut did eventually receive a knighthood for leading the successful team. Dolly lived a pampered life and died in 2003; her body remains on display at the National Museum...

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Colossal Bioscience’s attempt to de-extinct the dire wolf is a dangerously deceptive publicity stunt

By David Coltman, Carson Mitchell, Liam Alastair Wayde Carter, and Tommy Galfano, The Conversation | 05.12.2025

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Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf. The company presents this as a breakthrough for conservation biology. However, our team of conservation geneticists at the Western University...

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