Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth

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As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winnerNominate your invertebrate of the yearWitek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.“We are going to use a very advanced tool designed by bioengineers and evolved over millions of years – the human hand – and grab some moss, and put it in an envelope,” he says. Continue reading...