May 21st, 2008
Extinct Tasmanian Tiger DNA ‘resurrected’
(Tasmanian Tiger - photo credit www.bbc.co.uk/news)
Using transgenic mice, Australian and American researchers have shown that they can “resurrect” a snippet of DNA from the genome of an extinct animal — the Tasmanian tiger — and test its biological function in a living animal. The last Tasmanian Tiger died in an Australian zoo in 1936 having […]
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