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Scandinavian scientists a step closer to resurrecting the extinct Tasmanian tiger
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2 years ago
The scientists sequenced a strand of RNA from a 130-year-old thylacine specimen preserved at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania.
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- People didn't think it could really be done.
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RNA is very, very transient.
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So, you know, if I would take some RNA
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and smear it here on the table,
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it would be destroyed in a matter of minutes.
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