De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger
by Adam Morton from Science | The Guardian on (#62JA2)
University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine
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Scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native Tasmania.
The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is the second undertaking by Colossal, a Texas-based biotechnology de-extinction" company that last year announced it planned to use genetic engineering techniques to recreate the woolly mammoth and return it to the Arctic tundra.
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