This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 15)

GENETICS Plan to Build a Genetic Noah’s Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species George Dvorsky | Gizmodo “As its name [G10K] implies, this group had initially planned to sequence the genomes of at least 10,000 vertebrate species, but now, owing to tremendous advances and cost reductions in gene sequencing technologies, G10K has decided to up […]