Researchers are attempting to bring back the Tasmanian tiger very nearly hundred years after termination
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As well as bringing back the wooly mammoth, hereditary designing
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organization Colossal is likewise hoping to revive another
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terminated species: the Tasmanian tiger.
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Teaming up with Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences to bring
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back the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), a carnivore that
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was decimated in the early 20th century, is the University of
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Melbourne's Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Laboratory, or TIGRR.
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Scientists will use CRISPR gene-editing technology and the TIGRR
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Laboratory's complete Tasmanian tiger genome from a preserved
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sample to eventually create the embryo. The lab also identified other
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surviving mammals with similar DNA to provide the necessary cells for the process.