Scientists in Australia and the US have
launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine,
a marsupial that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native Tasmania.
Its new project is a partnership with the
University of Melbourne, which earlier this year received a $5m philanthropic gift to open a thylacine genetic restoration lab.
The lab’s team has previously sequenced the genome of a juvenile specimen held by Museums Victoria, providing what its
leader, Prof Andrew Pask, called “a complete blueprint on how to essentially
build a thylacine”.
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