Just a few days ago , we were askingif Diamond State - extinction was possible , and today , we ’re a huge dance step closer to bringing recently out specie back to life . Researchers have announced that they’vegrown early - stage embryos of the gastric - loom anuran , a species that has been extinct since 1983 .
At yesterday ’s TEDxDeExtinction event , University of New South Wales paleontologist Michael Archer announced the rise by the so - called Lazarus project . The bizarre gastric - brooding frog , the female of which incubated the prejuvenile stages of its young in its stomach , disappeared from the wild in 1979 and go extinct a few age later . However , Adelaide frog researcher Mike Tyler froze specimen of the frog prior to its extinguishing , leave behind the room access open for the species ’ potential resurrection .
Scientists extracted DNA from a frozen salientian specimen , and employed somatic - cadre nuclear transferral , the same process used to clone still - live brute . The team took ball from the distantly concern cracking barricaded frog , deactivated that toad ’s deoxyribonucleic acid with UV illumination , and inserted the gastric - hatch toad frog ’s deoxyribonucleic acid into the eggs . The cells inside the eggs begin dividing , becoming blastulas . The embryos died after a few solar day , long before develop into tadpole , but desoxyribonucleic acid tests confirm that they were gastric - brooding frog embryos , and Archer say they have high hopes for watch this frog up and hopping soon .
reproduction programs are in place to attempt to bring certain extinct species back through selective breeding , and some selective upbringing has been successful , but this is the first time that the embryo of an out species has been grown using this proficiency .
Photo Credit: Ronnie .
Extinct salientian hop back into the gene pool[Sydney Morning Herald viaTreeHugger ]
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