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FROM Sarah Zahng
Fluffy goes vegan: The expensive new world of alternative pet foods These days, pet food shelves are bursting with offerings way beyond beef, chicken and rice. There’s now organic, grass-fed, cage-free food; alternative proteins like kangaroo and alligator; even vegan choices. Writer and cat owner Sarah Zhang has been looking into the $70 billion American pet food industry and its newest forays.
How the Mormon family tree helped researchers identify a deadly genetic mutation The Mormon Church in Salt Lake City houses one of the largest genealogy databases in the world, covering more than a million people. From those records, researchers in the early 1980s found evidence of a deadly genetic mutation that causes colon cancer. The mutation has been passed on through multiple generations, decimating some Mormon families that carried it.
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