{"id":144324,"date":"2022-08-17T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/jurassic-park-scientists-want-to-resurrect-australias-tasmanian-tiger"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:23:54","slug":"jurassic-park-scientists-want-to-resurrect-australias-tasmanian-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/jurassic-park-scientists-want-to-resurrect-australias-tasmanian-tiger","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jurassic Park\u2019? Scientists want to resurrect Australia\u2019s Tasmanian tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jurassic-park-scientists-want-to-resurrect-australias-tasmanian-tiger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is de-extinction realistic?<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in the US and Australia have announced a multi-million dollar project \u2014 resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian tiger. The last known marsupial officially called a thylacine, died in the 1930s. According to the team, the extinct thylacine can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first one could be \u201creintroduced\u201d to the wild within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>We would strongly advocate that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowing down in species loss.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TIGGR Lab.<\/p>\n<p>The last known marsupial officially called a thylacine, died in the 1930s. According to the team, the extinct thylacine can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first one could be reintroduced to the wild within 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is de-extinction realistic? Scientists in the US and Australia have announced a multi-million dollar project \u2014 resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian tiger. The last known marsupial officially called a thylacine, died in the 1930s. According to the team, the extinct thylacine can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first one could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144324","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}