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Ten years ago, two fingers were enough to count the number of sequenced human genomes. Until last year, the fingers on two hands were enough. Today, the rate of such sequencing is escalating so fast it is hard to keep track. Nature attempted nevertheless.

Scientists and composers produce a new choral work in which singers sing parts of their own genetic code.

The recipe for making any creature is written in its DNA. So last November, when geneticists published the near-complete DAN sequence of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, there was much speculation about whether we could bring this behemoth back to life.