Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Scientific advances could 'build a real Jurassic Park' sooner than we think
dailystar.co.ukanimals. Engineering a living, breathing dinosaur is probably still a long way off – mainly because a complete sample of DNA is very hard to come by.
The closest find so far comes from a fossilised Caudipteryx excavated in Northern China in 2021. A team led by Alida Bailleul, a palaeontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found the precious genetic material from a bird-sized Cretaceous dinosaurHowever, the material is likely to have been so degraded that it’s beyond the scope of our current gene-editing technology to fully sequence it., she says.“If there is any DNA or any DNA-like molecule in there, it will most likely be very chemically modified,” Bailleul said.“We can never clone dinosaurs and bring them back to life, even if we ended up having their entire genome sequenced”.Scientists should never say never, though.
Especially as we seem to be in a golden age of dinosaur discoveries. Palaeontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University said in 2019: “The pace of dinosaur discovery is so fast these days, one could label it frantic.”Less ancient – but equally iconic – creatures could beat extinction long before the first dinosaur returns from the grave.Maverick Harvard University geneticist George Church has already made significant progress in his bid to resurrect the woolly mammoth.While he promised it would be a two-year process when he began working on bringing mammoths back to the Russian steppes in 2017, he’s now revised that estimate to a slightly more realistic six-year timeline.
He’s working on editing the genome of elephants using the recovered DNA of their extinct cousins as a guide. “We’re working on ways to evaluate the impact of all these edits,” says Church.
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