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It was international news when Dallas-based “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences last week pledged to do the improbable:With 50 scientists and $15 million devoted to the project, the announcement attracted a lot of attention, and disapproval, from some in the biomedical community.from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA.

, a “science communicator-presenter-model” who works as a freelance television presenter at Channel 7. Wells does have scientific bona fides, with a degree in science and having worked on several environmental campaigns for Greenpeace, 1 Million Women and WWF Australia. “This is not normal in our fields of science. It is a complication of science performed in a corporate culture. This is a new dynamic. I don’t think it is necessarily a welcome one.”A few of the 47th parliament’s stragglers have released their registers of interest since yesterday’s gentle ribbing in this column.has taken over as chief patron of the National Portrait Gallery, a customary honour for prime ministerial spouses.

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