During the last two decades, the idea that lost species could be re-created or resurrected
from their fossil DNA with the help of adequate biotechnological machinery has become …

In 2008, researchers affiliated with the Mammoth Genome Project at Pennsylvania State
University announced that they had successfully sequenced about 70 per cent of the …

On the whole, the conservation biology community doesn't support the use of cloning to
return extinct species to life, but there are persuasive philosophical and practical reasons for …

Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always
fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic technologies to reverse …

Wild animals are objects of fascination and concern. Efforts are made all over the world to
protect wild animals–especially the ones in danger of losing their habitats or their life–and …

Sequenceable DNA can be recovered from museum specimens and some fossils of extinct
species. That discovery in the 1980s set in motion the idea that it might be possible to bring …

Reviving extinct species with new synthetic biology tools is as exciting an idea as it is
controversial. Genomic manipulation of extinct species' close relatives and/or cloning …

This case study of the Australian Museum's Thylacine Cloning Project analyzes a frame
dispute that emerged during public communication of a scientific project, which lasted from …

The emergence of de‐extinction is a study in technological optimism. What has already
been accomplished in recovering ancient genomes, recreating them, and reproducing …

Even as conservationists remain wary of the approach that cloning represents, the potential
of cloning for conservation is receiving increasing attention in scientifi c circles and the …