26 May 2008
Ancient gene resurrection
Two months ago I was wondering why to build a dinosaur? In a more general way the problem can be stated as: Why to resurrect an extinct species? Even if I don't have yet anwers, some scientists started really to deal with a sister question: How to resurrect an extinct gene? Obviously to do that, they used also reporter gene technology (lacZ). I don't write more about it because there is yet in the blogosphere a good review. Read tasmanian park at the blog of Giovanna Di Sauro.
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