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Genomics

Tasmanian Park: extinct mammalian DNA back to life

May 20th, 2008 by gio | 3 Comments

Tasmanian Park: extinct mammalian DNA back to life

How many of you remember Jurassic Park? If you do, you would probably also remember that resuscitating a species which has undergone extinction long ago would basically be impossible because of, among other things, DNA degradation. But what about species that are more recent, and whose tissue samples have been carefully stored?