Tasmanian tiger DNA comes alive in mouse
A University of Melbourne team has extracted genes from a tasmanian tiger and put them into a mouse embryo, reviving hopes that the extinct thylacine may one day be successfully cloned.
The DNA from the thylacine reproduced in the mouse's body, showing biological function, in what the university's Dr Andrew Pask says is the first time DNA from an extinct species has been used "to induce a functional response in another living organism."
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