Is de-extinction realistic?
"Our research proposes nine key steps to de-extinction of the thylacine. One of our biggest breakthroughs was sequencing the thylacine genome, providing a complete blueprint on how to essentially build a thylacine," said Pask.
According to the expert, the funding could help develop the technologies to bring back the species from extinction and even help safeguard other marsupials on the brink of disappearing. "The funding will allow our lab to move forward and focus on three key areas: improving our understanding of the thylacine genome; developing techniques to use marsupial stem cells to make an embryo; and then successfully transferring the embryo into a host surrogate uterus, such as a dunnart or Tasmanian devil," said Pask.
"We are unlikely to get the full genome sequence of the extinct species, thus we will never be able to fully recreate the genome of the lost form. There will always be some parts that can't be changed. They will have to cherry-pick what changes to make. And thus the result will be a hybrid," GilbertBut the real benefit of such a project is the "awesomeness" of it, he added.
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