A US biotech company will invest $10 million in a University of Melbourne team working to bring back the Tasmanian tiger. The team is certain it will succeed, but other scientists are less confident.
, one of the fathers of the Human Genome Project and an inventor of several key genetic engineering technologies.
The Australian Museum’s high-profile effort to bring back the thylacine, extinct since 1936, ended in acrimony in 2005: only a small amount of DNA was ever recovered. Then the tiger needs to be raised to adulthood – alone, as the only living example of its species. The tiny dunnart is unlikely to provide much parental support.
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