Jurassic Perk.......

[Moviemaniac4]

Australian museum drops bid to clone extinct Tasmanian "tiger"

SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian Museum has abandoned an ambitious attempt to clone an extinct marsupial known as the "Tasmanian tiger", or thylacine.
The project to clone the animal using DNA recovered from a pickled thylacine pup was started in 1999 by the museum's then-director, Mike Archer.
But the Sydney museum's current boss, Frank Howarth, admitted Tuesday to the national broadcaster ABC that the quality of the DNA was too poor to work with.
He said that while the museum had the expertise needed to construct a DNA library for the thylacine, it lacked the facilities and skills to conduct "further stages requiring cell culture".


"The museum's future involvement in the thylacine project has been re-evaluated," the museum said in a statement released by the ABC.


"In fact, further investigation has now revealed that the thylacine DNA is far too degraded to even construct an DNA library," it said.


"Given this, the project cannot proceed to the next stage."

[Spore]

Too bad....

[-megalithanod]

That is too bad -

I'd much rather have seen this happen since "man" was a major reason fro that species demise that the other project where they were going to try to do a Mammoth

[Spore]

I'd still like to see some Mammoths... besides... maybe humans did have something to do with their extinction... kinda like the path we've put most elephants on...

[Joranthalus]

that sucks... i was really hoping they could pull that off....

[Moviemaniac4]

Maybe agent Smith was right.....humans are like viruses........

[Spore]

Humans are more like a plague... we even keep the weak and useless going so that they can waste more planetary resources...

[Biomechanoid]

I'd much rather see cloning globally outlawed. That's not the right-winger talking about crude attempts at standardizing morality, it's just the nagging gut feeling that we haven't come nearly far enough in our understanding for such attempts to be anything but disastrous. Remember the sheep that they "cloned" - Molly I think? They're alleged success was highly publicized, but they found months later - and with considerably less attention - that she was much more susceptible to genetic disease, and if I remember correctly the animal had to be destroyed. I'd hate to see all the media fan-fare over the resurrection of an extinct species only to have its line snuffed out again by human shortcomings.