Colossal Biosciences, the company that engineered the return of the dire wolf, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 3, a collaboration to preserve the genomes of 10,000 animal species facing extinction, according to Time. This initiative aims to protect these species' DNA, offering the potential for their revival even if they vanish.
In other news, a Netflix documentary, "The Investigation of Lucy Letby," seeks to re-examine the case of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse convicted in 2023 of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others (with a seventh attempted murder charge added later) in the United Kingdom, Time reported. The documentary challenges the understanding of Letby's guilt, suggesting she may not be guilty after all. Letby, born on Jan. 4, 1990, obtained a BSC in Child Nursing from the University of Chester and had her university placement at the Countess of Chester.
Recent scientific advancements, highlighted in the Nature Podcast, include research into rete ridge formation in skin, the genetic engineering of stinkweed for seed oil production, and the use of AI for scientific literature reviews, according to Nature News. A large galaxy survey suggests the universe is less clumpy than previously thought, showcasing ongoing research across diverse scientific fields.
Additionally, Nature News issued an author correction to an article published on August 29, 2018, regarding the cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes. Extended Data Fig. 4d was inadvertently presented as a partial duplicate of Extended Data Fig. 2a, and the strains in both panels were partially misannotated. The corrected figures are now available, and these corrections do not affect the result.
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