An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species

· by · in Biotechnology industry, iPS Cells, Personalized Therapies, Regenerative Medicine. ·


The Christmas Island rat (illustrated) went extinct in the early 1900s. Editing the genome of a living relative of the rat could create something that looks… more BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY (CC BY-NC 3.0)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-de-extinct-christmas-rat-species-gene-editing

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