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Adolfo Bioy Cesares delay

My Amazon shipment is postponed from this fall until April 11, 2028 (!). Will it ever come? Of course this is the fantastic, and long, Bioy Cesares book Borges, his memoir of their friendship. How can the reoptimization both be so distant and so exact in timing? The post Adolfo Bioy Cesares delay appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsA Soviet-era joke (famously told by President Ronald Reagan) . by lastexposfanThe book is ordered but instead of arriving is given a . by mkt42A man buy...

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Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”

This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome. It allowed them to create female clones of male mice. That’s right: female animals that are genetically identical to males, except for the missing Y chromosome.…

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