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ASSUMING WE DEVELOP THE CAPABILITY, SHOULD WE BRING BACK EXTINCT SPECIES? And what about tweaking them a bit in the process to, say, make them less of a threat to humans?

[8.30.12]

According to an interview with Ryan Phelan, executive director of a project called Revive and Restore, at the Science Foo conference at the Googleplex earlier this month, there are now three techniques that may someday give scientists that ability: backbreeding (trying to work evolution backward, basically, to select for the traits of a related species), cloning (if enough genetic material exists), and genome editing (selectively manipulating the genome of a related species).

ASSUMING WE DEVELOP THE CAPABILITY, SHOULD WE BRING BACK EXTINCT SPECIES? And what about tweaking them a bit in the process to, say, make them less of a threat to humans? [1]

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The Atlantic [3]
Rebecca J. Rosen
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[ Thu. Aug. 30. 2012 ]

According to an interview with Ryan Phelan [4], executive director of a project called Revive and Restore, at the Science Foo conference at the Googleplex earlier this month, there are now three techniques that may someday give scientists that ability: backbreeding (trying to work evolution backward, basically, to select for the traits of a related species), cloning (if enough genetic material exists), and genome editing (selectively manipulating the genome of a related species).

Links:
[1] https://www.edge.org/news/assuming-we-develop-the-capability-should-we-bring-back-extinct-species-and-what-about-tweaking
[2] http://is.gd/yun9mM
[3] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/assuming-we-develop-the-capability-should-we-bring-back-extinct-species/261796/
[4] http://edge.org/conversation/to-bring-back-the-extinct