Could genetically enhanced dogs of war be the first step to a super-soldier?

Palmer Luckey, a defence-tech billionaire appointed by Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon’s review of future warfare, is an unlikely dog breeder. He has teamed up with Ben Lamm, whose biotech company Colossal is working on bringing the woolly mammoth back from extinction. Together they have launched Warhound, a start-up using frontier genetics technology to develop a new elite breed of service dog. Lamm has likened it to a “Captain America programme for dogs,” which makes it sound like it was concocted by a couple of overexcited 12-year-olds, but the company is no joke. With…

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