A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
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Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#2It’s amazing what an incredibly prescient work of science fiction Jurassic Park (the novel) really was. Before CRISPR, before Dolly, before the Human Genome, Crichton called it.
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#3Wonder if they are successful if they just go extinct again. Will they know how to hunt and reproduce? Interesting test of nature vs nurture.
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#4It’s amazing what an incredibly prescient work of science fiction Jurassic Park (the novel) really was. Before CRISPR, before Dolly, before the Human Genome, Crichton called it.
Your comment supposes that (1) not a lot of people were talking about the idea back then and (2) that we have made significant progress in cloning extinct animals
I think a lot of people were talking about the idea back then and also we've had very little progress since then (despite flowery "news" articles like OP)
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#5It’s amazing what an incredibly prescient work of science fiction Jurassic Park (the novel) really was. Before CRISPR, before Dolly, before the Human Genome, Crichton called it.
The 1982 paper that inspired Crichton to think about ancient insects in amber:
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#6Wonder if they are successful if they just go extinct again. Will they know how to hunt and reproduce? Interesting test of nature vs nurture.
The claim from the researchers is that there has been a lot of success in reintroducing human-raised animals into the wild, and that for mammals, most hunting/etc behavior is indeed instinctive.
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#7Wonder if they are successful if they just go extinct again. Will they know how to hunt and reproduce? Interesting test of nature vs nurture.
The claim from the researchers is that there has been a lot of success in reintroducing human-raised animals into the wild, and that for mammals, most hunting/etc behavior is indeed instinctive.
An interesting test of some of the claims about epigenetics...
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#8Wow, I was just reading about Benjamin, the last known captive thylacine filmed in 1935
> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-footage-benjam...
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#9Is this likely to be the first de-extinct animal which we can bring back does anyone know?
Re: A lab pursuing de-extinction of the thylacine partners with a genetics company
#10Wonder if they are successful if they just go extinct again. Will they know how to hunt and reproduce? Interesting test of nature vs nurture.
Worst case you provide 90% of their food and decrease it a little bit for each generation until they’ve learned how to hunt.