New Evidence Links Dogs to Wolves

Ancient dog bones from an archaeological dig in Germany provided new clues about how dogs evolved from wolves. The 5000 to 7000 year-old bones held DNA that suggested dogs were domesticated 30,000 years ago and then migrated around the world. Dogs from India, Ireland and Germany all have common ancestors. Your dog’s great-great times 4000 grandpa was a wolf!
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CRISPR Turns E.Coli into Tape Recorder

Do you know what CRISPR is? It’s not how you like your potato chips! It’s an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which is a family of DNA sequences in bacteria. Scientists just used CRISPR to turn E-coli bacteria into miniature tape recorders! This method of recording information is a new way to use bacteria to diagnose diseases!
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