“And every year they can release about 500 black-footed ferrets into the wild.”
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“We could use synthetic biology… to edit the genome of these black-footed ferrets and make them resistant to plague.”
Dr. Beth Shapiro · Huberman Lab · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro
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Use synthetic biology to edit the genome of black-footed ferrets to make them resistant to plague
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