The emerging field has drawn intense journalistic and public interest, with philosophical, ideological and practical objections and assertions battling over something that has not yet happened. The possibility of de-extincting species is being taken seriously and IUCN has commissioned a working group to develop guidelines for the conservation application of de-extinction.
It was truly a revolutionary thought! The chance to consider de-extincting species is only possible as a result of a remarkable decrease in the cost of reading and writing DNA, together with the creation of a set of innovative tools for manipulating the structure of DNA. ‘Extinction is not forever’ was the phrase that caught my attention when I first heard about the developing initiatives to bring back extinct species.
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