Scientists plan to bring back extinct Christmas Island rat by gene-editing DNA - Daily Mail

It could be possible to bring back the extinct Christmas Island rat using the CRISPR gene editing technique, according to Dr Tom Gilbert at the University of Copenhagen.

Scientists have revealed plans to bring back the extinct Christmas Island rat, 119 years after it was wiped out.  In a new paper, an international team of academics outline how the use of CRISPR a g… [+9348 chars]

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