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Harvard doctor wants to resurrect a dead woolly mammoth.
A woolly mammoth is similar to an elephant, but with a much larger body and heavier tusks. Before extinction, these massive beasts from the same family as modern elephants roamed the Earth roughly 10,000 years ago. Scientists now want to resurrect them.
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India has given its approval to the world’s first DNA Covid vaccination.
The world’s first DNA vaccination against Covid-19 has been approved for emergency use by India’s pharma authority. According to interim research cited by vaccine developer Cadila Healthcare, the three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine avoided symptomatic illness in 66 percent of individuals inoculated. The company hopes to produce up to 120 million doses of India’s second home-grown vaccine…