Could Gene-Editing Technology Bring Back the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger?
With the stripes of a tiger, the body shape of a dog and
the pouch of a kangaroo, the Australian thylacine was a unique
combination of animals. Unfortunately, humans drove it to extinction, and the
last one perished in 1936. However, as gene technology advances and the science
of “de-extinction” ...
'Not science fiction any more': The
Tasmanian tiger could soon be back from extinction
Andrew Pask, a scientist from the University of
Melbourne, was part of a team who worked for 10 years to discover all the
genetic information of the thylacine. They did this with the help of a
four-week-old thylacine joey that had been preserved in a liquid chemical
when it died a long time ago. This joey is ...
'It's not science fiction, it's science
fact': Australian scientists plan to CLONE the Tasmanian tiger ...
'You would have to make a lot more changes to make the
numbat DNA look like a thylacine but the technology for making those
changes has gotten exponentially easier in the last five or so years because of
the people who are doing the mammoth work,' Professor Pask said. The Tasmanian
Tiger ...
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