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Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

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From AI feeding systems to bubble curtains and closed containment, we examine eight innovations reshaping Scottish salmon farming.