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| Australian Scientists bring Tasmanian Tiger DNA back to life |
| 2008-05-19 |
| AUSTRALIAN scientists say it may eventually be possible to bring a dinosaur back to life, after a world-first experiment with DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger. DNA from preserved Tasmanian tiger specimens was injected and brought back to life in a mouse embryo in the nine-year experiment conducted by Melbourne University zoologists Andrew Pask and Marilyn Renfree. The experiment proved the tiger DNA was able to grow cartilage and bone in the mouse, showing the extinct gene could be brought back to life, results published in the international scientific journal PLoS One show today. Dr Pask said the same technique could now be used with other extinct species such as the dinosaur, mammoth and neanderthal, all of which scientists had large amounts of DNA available. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 Great, a starship full of toddlers all taught by Barney the Dinosaur and all singing 'I love you... you love me...'. Any life out there will want payback.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-05-19 23:32 |
| #2 Its the way to do Starships... Encode our dna on silicon chips... than recreate in orbit hundreds of years later at the new star. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-05-19 22:13 |
| #1 Stuff like this will kill the Endangered Species Act and its obstruction employed by Luddites and the Red-Green Marxists to achieve their political goals. When you can recreate species from DNA constructs, no species can ever be considered extinct and therefore endangered. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-19 21:08 |