Lab notes: doyouthinkhesaurus? A great week for dinosaur camouflage jokes

Genome editing has taken another giant leap forward: a groundbreaking project has managed tocorrect faulty DNA in human embryos that is linked to a fatal heart condition. It raises hopes for parents who risk passing on genetic diseases, although there ’s obviously still a long way to go technically and ethically before this becomes clinically available. There might also be some extraordinarily good news for those living with Parkinson’s disease. It looks like adrug currently used to treat diabetes improves movement-related issues and might also slow the progression of the disease. Now, that ’s exciting, but this is my favourite story of the week for oh-so-many reasons: new analysis done on a thin film of organic material found on a 110-m-year-old nodosaur (itself anextraordinarily exciting story from earlier this year) shows that it sportedginger-coloured camouflage as well as its intimidating spikes and armour. Not only is this intriguing, but also might change the way we think about predators includingT rex. Don ’t even bother to calm down after that, because there’s more ancient news to dig (ahaha, see what I ... never mind).Archaeologists have uncovered a site they ’ve dubbed a ‘little Pompeii’ south of Lyon in France. The homes and public building are incredibly well-preserved and has been described as an exceptional find by France ’s culture ministry. And finally, if you were wondering what happened next to the trillion-tonne Larsen C iceberg,here ’s...
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