Fluorescent fish that glow near pollution. Dolphins with prosthetic
fins. Robot-armoured beetles that military handlers can send on spy
missions. Beloved pets resurrected from DNA. Scientists have
already begun to create these high-tech hybrids, mostly to serve
human whims and needs. What if a cow could be engineered to no
longer feel pain - should we design a herd that would assuage our
guilt over eating meat? Shouldn't we create it? Popular science
writer Emily Anthes travels around the globe to see how humans are
inventing the fauna of the future, from the Roslin Institute, the
Scottish birthplace of Dolly the Sheep, where scientists are trying
to clone an endangered mountain lion to a 'pharm' where chickens
are modified to lay eggs laced with cancer-fighting drugs.
Frankenstein's Cat is an eye-opening exploration of weird science -
and how we are playing god in the animal world.
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