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Article: Australian Museum Announces Tasmanian Tiger Cloning Breakthrough.
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- May 28, 2002
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SYDNEY, Australia--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 28, 2002
After more than two years of ongoing cloning research, the Australian Museum has overcome a crucial obstacle in its continuing efforts to bring back to life the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
In May 2002 the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the Australian Museum in Sydney successfully replicated individual Tasmanian Tiger genes using a process known as PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction).
These new discoveries and the story of the Museum's ongoing efforts have been exclusively documented by the Discovery Channel in End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger to ...