Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>De-<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> company provides a progress report on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/thylacine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thylacine</span></a> efforts<br>Stem cell editing, complete <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a>, and cane toad resistance mark necessary steps.<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Colossal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colossal</span></a> released a progress report on resurrecting the thylacine, also known as Tasmanian tiger, which went <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/extinct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinct</span></a> in 1936. Marsupial biology has some features that may make de-extinction somewhat easier, but we have far less sophisticated ways of manipulating it compared to working with placental mammals.<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/effort-to-bring-back-the-tasmanian-tiger-builds-steam/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">0/effort-to-bring-back-the-tasmanian-tiger-builds-steam/</span></a></p>