Unexpected Elements
The ribbiting science of frogs
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In 2025, Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova picked up some spliced frog embryos from a laboratory in France and brought them back to the USA to aid her research into ageing and cancer. She was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), charged with smuggling and had her visa revoked.
Now though, a judge has ruled that the scientist’s visa was wrongly…