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From the Ted Talk by Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
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OK. What could we do with this stuff? Well, George Church, in his book, "Regenesis," has _________ many of the techniques that are rapidly _________ to work with __________ DNA. We would hope that we'll be able to get that DNA back into a ______ form, and then, much like we've done with the Lazarus _______, get that stuff into an egg of a host species. It has to be a different species. What could it be? Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil? They're related, distantly, to thylacines. And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.
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Original Text
OK. What could we do with this stuff? Well, George Church, in his book, "Regenesis," has mentioned many of the techniques that are rapidly advancing to work with fragmented DNA. We would hope that we'll be able to get that DNA back into a viable form, and then, much like we've done with the Lazarus Project, get that stuff into an egg of a host species. It has to be a different species. What could it be? Why couldn't it be a Tasmanian devil? They're related, distantly, to thylacines. And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.
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