Scientists plan to revive Tasmanian tiger, extinct since 1936

The phrase "I'm dead and gone" may no longer be appropriate.

Nearly 90 years afterextinction, scientists are trying to bring back the Tasmanian tiger (officially known as thylacin).

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The movie Jurassic Parkis striving to improve biodiversity and climate, said Dallas-based genetics company Colossal Biosciences on Tuesday.

According to the company's official website,DNA collected from a long-dead thylacincan bring the animal back to life. used for

Colossal Biosciences claimed to have faced a human-caused extinction. Once considered a pest by European settlers in Australia, apex predators often ate livestock. For this reason, in 1830, a bounty was placed on the animal and a fierce hunt was carried out.

Colossal Biosciences claimed that the last wild thylacine was killed between 1910 and 1920. The last thylacine named Benjamin died in captivity at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania in 1936. That same year, the species was granted conservation status in Australia, but too late for a former apex predator. has played an important role in protecting the "Its role as an apex was meant to help keep the weak and sick out, as well as keep it in balance with competitors to help ensure species diversity."

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Science As thylacine disappears, a process called "nutritional downgrade" begins.

According to Science.org, the extinction of apex predators "may be the most pervasive impact on human nature." Nutrient depletion plays a role in the presence of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycling in the wild.

The scientific process of reviving thylacine is of course not trivial. Researchers will need to use cutting-edge technologies such as gene editing and artificial uterine insemination to achieve the project's goals.

Colossal Biosciences used 108-year-old specimens preserved in the Museum of Victoria, Australia to "generate high-quality reference genomes for all of thylacin's closest living relatives." , to determine if it is best suited for engineering." Introducing

From there, scientists identified a 'recipient host' and used genome engineering techniques to transfer the thylacin gene to Taito. Insert into the genome of Dunnert.

The thick-tailed dunnart, a rodent-like marsupial, is the closest relative of the thylacin. According to CNN,the size difference between the animals (thylacines are 51-69 centimeters tall and thick-tailed dunnarts are only 60-90 millimeters long) is not a problem. The reason is that “all marsupials sometimes give birth to offspring as small as a grain of rice,” reported CNN.

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will complete with the birth of the first non-extinct thylacin," the company wrote. We will continue to focus on animal husbandry activities to grow healthy populations in the environment.”

Thylacin de-extinction is not the only project of Colossal Biosciences. The company also received an investment of US$15 million (over US$19 million) last year to revive thewoolly mammoth

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