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I saw Ben Novak talk at the Interval last year. He mentioned that a few animals have been resurrected in a slightly different way already. Eg. the Red Factor C
by bcherny 10y ago
I saw Ben Novak talk at the Interval last year.
He mentioned that a few animals have been resurrected in a slightly different way already. Eg. the Red Factor Canary was resurrected by breeding a Domestic Canary and a Red Siskin. Apparently the offspring had enough geno/phenotypic resemblance to the original Red Factor Canary that this newly created lineage was given that original name.
- jkimmel 10y agoIn George Church's book Regenesis, he recounts the interesting story of resurrecting the Pyrenean Ibex by somatic cell nuclear transfer and surrogate pregnancy in a closely related species. The source article is a great read [0]. The animal that resulted died of lung complications shortly after birth, but apparently veterinarians indicated that these complications were totally within the norm of ibex ontogeny, and probably not a failing of the underlying cell biology. So, for just a few minutes, an extinct species was brought back to life. [0] -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19167744 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19167744
- aplusbi 10y agoThe only species to go extinct twice.
- pvaldes 10y agoIn Spain, obviously. After years of "I will not permit to add new blood with hybrids with wild goat, because is a unique trophy that nobody will have except us". Even today the idea of add new blood to the remaining (and very inbreed) populations of wild goats is often mission imposible blocked by hunter's lobbies.