BACK FROM THE DEAD?

SCIENTISTS CLOSER TO CLONING TASMANIAN TIGER

Around the world, hundreds if not thousands of species of animals JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 JXUwMDJjJXUwMDFjJXUwMDFhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDE1JXUwMDExJXUwMDBiJXUwMDBiJXUw MDAx (threaten) with extinction... but the latest scientific developments could mean that one day even extinct animals may JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3 JXUwMDNhJXUwMDEwJXUwMDFkJXUwMDFhJXUwMDEyJXUwMDBmJXUwMDFj back(bring back) to life using DNA technology. The last-known Tasmanian tiger died in a zoo in Hobart, Australia, in 1936. Fifty years later, the species JXUwMDJmJXUwMDEyJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE3 JXUwMDNjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDA2JXUwMDBmJXUwMDBkJXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3JXUwMDAx (declare) extinct. But in 1999, a research project into DNA cloning JXUwMDJmJXUwMDE2JXUwMDEy JXUwMDJiJXUwMDE2JXUwMDEx up (set up) at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and now, after three years work, high quality DNA JXUwMDJmJXUwMDE2JXUwMDEy JXUwMDNkJXUwMDFkJXUwMDBjJXUwMDA2JXUwMDEzJXUwMDAyJXUwMDE3JXUwMDExJXUwMDAx (extract) from a baby tiger which JXUwMDMwJXUwMDA5JXUwMDA1 JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAwJXUwMDBi JXUwMDI4JXUwMDAyJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE2JXUwMDE2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDEzJXUwMDAx (preserve) in a jar of alcohol since 1866. According to scientists, there is now a chance of the Tasmanian tiger JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDBjJXUwMDA3JXUwMDA5 JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE2JXUwMDA2JXUwMDA3JXUwMDAwJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA2JXUwMDE3JXUw MDExJXUwMDAx (resurrect) using techniques similar to those which JXUwMDMwJXUwMDA5JXUwMDA1 JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAwJXUwMDBi JXUwMDJkJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE2JXUwMDAx (use) to create cloned sheep in the 1990s.

          If undamaged DNA JXUwMDJmJXUwMDEyJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE3 JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA2JXUwMDBjJXUwMDE5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE3JXUwMDAx (recover), it could JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3 JXUwMDMxJXUwMDA3JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDA2JXUwMDExJXUwMDAx (insert) into the empty egg of a related living species, such as a Tasmanian Devil.

However, the technology for the final stage of cloning - where the Tasmanian Tiger's DNA could JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3 JXUwMDI4JXUwMDFjJXUwMDBkJXUwMDAyJXUwMDA2JXUwMDAx (place) into a Tasmanian Devil host which JXUwMDMwJXUwMDA5JXUwMDA1 JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDAwJXUwMDBi JXUwMDJiJXUwMDA3JXUwMDA2JXUwMDFiJXUwMDE5JXUwMDAwJXUwMDE1JXUwMDAx (strip) of its own genetic material - is still to JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3 JXUwMDNjJXUwMDAxJXUwMDEzJXUwMDEzJXUwMDA5JXUwMDAzJXUwMDFmJXUwMDE1JXUwMDAx (develop).

"It's a very significant breakthrough," said Professor Michael Archer, Professor of Zoology at the University of New South Wales. "Although there's still a lot of work JXUwMDJjJXUwMDFi JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3 JXUwMDNjJXUwMDBiJXUwMDAxJXUwMDBi (do), there's now a real possibility of Tasmanian tigers JXUwMDNhJXUwMDA3JXUwMDBjJXUwMDA3JXUwMDA5 JXUwMDJhJXUwMDE3JXUwMDA5JXUwMDA5JXUwMDA0JXUwMDEyJXUwMDE2JXUwMDAx (release) into the wild within the next decade."