Original article by Adam Morton
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 17-Aug-22

The University of Melbourne will work with US-based biotechnology firm Colossal in a genetic engineering project to revive the extinct thylacine. Professor Andrew Pask of Melbourne University believes that the first Tasmanian tiger joeys could be born within a decade, although Colossal CEO Ben Lamm suggests that a time-frame of six years could be realistic. The researchers aim to use gene editing to create a thylacine embryo via stem cells from the fat-tailed dunnart, which has similar DNA. The last known living thylacine died in 1936, and the species was officially declared extinct in the 1980s.

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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, COLOSSAL INCORPORATED