{"id":119757,"date":"2021-02-18T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/1st-clone-of-u-s-endangered-species-is-ferret-created-from-genes-of-animal-dead-for-3-decades"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:22:29","slug":"1st-clone-of-u-s-endangered-species-is-ferret-created-from-genes-of-animal-dead-for-3-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/1st-clone-of-u-s-endangered-species-is-ferret-created-from-genes-of-animal-dead-for-3-decades","title":{"rendered":"1st clone of U.S. endangered species is ferret created from genes of animal dead for 3 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1st-clone-of-u-s-endangered-species-is-ferret-created-from-genes-of-animal-dead-for-3-decades2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOW CUTE \ud83e\udd70 Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species. She\u2019s a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died in 1988.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cYou might have been handling a black-footed ferret kit and then they try to take your finger off the next day,\u201d U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret recovery coordinator Pete Gober said Thursday. \u201cShe\u2019s holding her own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Ann was born and is being raised at a Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret breeding facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. She\u2019s a genetic copy of a ferret named Willa who died in 1988 and whose remains were frozen in the early days of DNA technology.<\/p>\n<p>Cloning eventually could bring back extinct species such as the passenger pigeon. For now, the technique holds promise for helping endangered species including a Mongolian wild horse that was cloned and last summer born at a Texas facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW CUTE \ud83e\udd70 Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species. She\u2019s a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died in 1988. \u201cYou might have been handling a black-footed ferret kit and then they try to take your finger off the next day,\u201d U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}