If you’ve ever read recent dystopian sci-fi books such as Margaret Atwood’s-Oryx and Crake or-Paolo Bacigalupi’s-The Windup Girl, you’d know that one of their common predictions-is that in the future genetically mutated super animals will-run amok and make-day-to-day life very dangerous for the world’s remaining humans. Now-Technology Review brings us word that scientists in China claim to have used DNA manipulation to create a stronger, faster breed of dogs that will ominously be used for various police and military operations. Gulp. FROM EARLIER:-HTC used to be an Android fan favorite – now it’s a punchline It seems that there’s a mutation that naturally occurs in whippets’-myostatin genes that causes them to gain significant muscle bulk. Researchers in China have figured

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