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How to survive a viral apocalypse: a rabbit’s tale

In 1859, an English settler named Thomas Austin decided to import 24 rabbits from England to Australia so he could hunt on his property. He could have not been more successful, and by 1910, hundreds of millions of rabbits covered the entire continent. Thomas' success,... click to read more

Joel M. Alves | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

biodiversity

resistance

viruses

rabbits

Reading time 4 min

published on Sep 27, 2019

Gene edited “superpigs” resist devastating disease

Genome editors are simple tools that allow scientists to make very precise changes to the genome of any organism by cutting the genome at a very precise location. If you imagine the genome as a single, continuous string of information containing the instructions to build... click to read more

Christine Burkard | Assistant professor at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

genetics

disease

resistance

genome editors

Reading time 4.5 min

published on Feb 13, 2019