Scientists in the US and Australia have embarked on a project to resurrect the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger, a marsupial that went extinct in the 1930s, using gene-editing technology.
Wolly Mammoth resurrection project-
The ambitious project aims to reintroduce the animal to its native place Tasmania to revive the region’s lost ecological balance.
a genome sequenced from a DNA extracted from a 108-year-old specimen held at Australia’s Victoria Museum will be used.
This genome will be compared with the closest living animal of the species– the fat tailed dunnart — to identify all the differences. Once all the differences are identified, scientists will engineer the living cell’s DNA where it is different, essentially engineering the extinct species back.
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