by alexismorgan | Dec 14, 2017 | News
Biology professors Beth Shapiro and Erika Zavaleta won HHMI funding for their innovative science education proposals December 13, 2017 • By Tim Stephens With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), biologists at UC Santa Cruz will be using...
by be-webmaster | Apr 3, 2017 | News
Seated on a stage with a museum model of a dodo and a pair of mammoth tusks, a panel of experts debated what is exciting and what is frightening about scientific efforts to bring back extinct species — particularly those lost because of human activity. The occasion...
by be-webmaster | Mar 22, 2017 | Publications
Abstract: Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Nonetheless,...
by be-webmaster | Oct 16, 2016 | News
Beth Shapiro talks with RadioLive in New Zealand about de-extinction. Listen to the interview
by be-webmaster | Oct 10, 2016 | News
By Heather Goldstone & Elsa Partan Many scientists think we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, and it’s our fault. The idea of bringing back extinct animals has gotten more attention in recent years as labs around the world get better at sequencing their...
