Can We Resurrect Extinct Species? Scientists Put Jurassic Park to the Test [SingularityHub, March 2022]

Title:

Can we resurrect extinct species? Scientists put Jurassic Park to the test

Author:

Shelly Fan

Published:

SingularityHub, 16 March 2022

https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/16/can-we-resurrect-extinct-species-scientists-put-jurassic-park-to-the-test/

From the article:

De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it?  

 

According to a new study, nearly impossible. But wait—it’s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an extinct species may be impossible, we could bring back a hybrid species that’s a genetic mix between an extinct species and its modern descendant.

Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming [Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, April 2021]

Title:

Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming

 

Author:

Lindsay Brownell

Published:

Wyss Institute, 30 April 2021

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/move-over-crispr-the-retrons-are-coming/

From the article:

New gene editing technique enables millions of genetic experiments to be performed simultaneously.

Also see

Schubert, M.G. [et al.]. (2021). High-throughput functional variant screens via in vivo production of single-stranded DNA. PNAS, 118(18).

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/18/e2018181118