{"id":136958,"date":"2022-03-17T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:05:04","slug":"can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test","title":{"rendered":"Can We Resurrect Extinct Species? Scientists Put Jurassic Park to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with <i>Jurassic Park<\/i>. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(22)00249-4\">a new study<\/a>, nearly impossible. But wait\u2014it\u2019s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an extinct species may be impossible, we could bring back a hybrid species that\u2019s a genetic mix between an extinct species and its modern descendant.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Current Biology<\/i>, the study eschews the grandiose mammoth, instead focusing on a tiny test case: the Christmas Island rat. Hefty in size and loudly vocal when invading docked ships and their cargo, the rodents were last seen in the 1900s. With a stroke of luck, the team recovered DNA from two well-preserved museum samples and compared them against a close relative: the Norway brown rat, a popular lab model for genetic studies today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it? According to a new study, nearly impossible. But wait\u2014it\u2019s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an extinct species may be impossible, we could bring back a hybrid species that\u2019s a genetic mix [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}