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Remembering Those We Lost in 2021
As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.
Remembering Those We Lost in 2021
Remembering Those We Lost in 2021

As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

cell & molecular biology, conservation

New Bacterium Linked to Chimp Deaths
Asher Jones | Feb 3, 2021 | 2 min read
The newly discovered microbe seems to be responsible for a mysterious neurological disease that has killed dozens of critically endangered Western chimpanzees.
Viable Embryos Created With Northern White Rhino Sperm in the Lab
Ashley Yeager | Jul 4, 2018 | 2 min read
Researchers froze the fertilized eggs, taken from southern white rhinos, in hopes of preserving the near-extinct northern subspecies.
Remaking Nature
Kent H. Redford | Aug 1, 2013 | 4 min read
Synthetic biologists need to work together with conservationists to understand the environmental consequences of this new technology.
Flower Barcodes
Jef Akst | Jun 28, 2012 | 2 min read
Wales creates a database of DNA barcodes for all of its native flowering plants, hoping to guide conservation and drug development efforts.
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