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Article: Back to life?; 'Jurassic Park' scientists in sight of recreating extinct Tasmanian Tiger from DNA.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- May 29, 2002
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Byline: JAMES CHAPMAN
SCIENTISTS are on the verge of using Jurassic Park- style technology to bring an extinct species back to life.
They have extracted ' working' DNA - the blueprint for life - from a baby Tasmanian Tiger that was preserved in a jar of alcohol after it died in 1866.
The extraordinary project raises the prospect of resurrecting dozens of lost species.
In the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park, scientists recreated dinosaurs from ancient DNA.
Although using cloning to bring back such long-vanished species seems destined to remain in the realm of science fiction, genetics experts have been working for ...