{"id":185450,"date":"2024-03-19T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/crispr-is-helping-de-extinct-the-tasmanian-tiger"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:25:55","slug":"crispr-is-helping-de-extinct-the-tasmanian-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/crispr-is-helping-de-extinct-the-tasmanian-tiger","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR is helping \u201cde-extinct\u201d the Tasmanian tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-is-helping-de-extinct-the-tasmanian-tiger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extinction is a regular part of nature. An estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/427589a\">99% of all species<\/a> that have existed on Earth have gone the way of the dodo, sometimes because a fitter competitor came along or their environment changed (often because of humans) and they couldn\u2019t adapt.<\/p>\n<p>While life can go on relatively unchanged after the extinction of some species, the loss of a keystone species \u2014 one that plays a significant role in its environment \u2014 can upend an ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers exploring the idea of \u201cde-extinction\u201d believe that science might be able to intervene and restore the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction is a regular part of nature. An estimated 99% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone the way of the dodo, sometimes because a fitter competitor came along or their environment changed (often because of humans) and they couldn\u2019t adapt. While life can go on relatively unchanged after the extinction of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185450","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=185450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}