Michael Archer : How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Michael Archer·TEDxDeExtinction
How we’ll resurrect the gastric-brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
Summary
This was a really interesting story that told me many things which l didn’t know.
Resurrecting means to bring back to life. The speaker is focused on two projects about resurrecting which are the Thylacine project and the Lazarus project.

In the first place, l didn’t know about existing the Thylacine and the gastric-brooding frog but they seemed to be extinct about 30 years ago.

The gastric-brooding frog literally can brood eggs in its gastric and from its mouth, little frogs are born. (I’m sorry that my explanation was really poor. )
Fortunately, there have been frozen tissues of the gastric-brooding frog. The project did to take a dead nucleus from the frozen one and put it into a completely different species. ( The gastric-brooding frog seemed to be the last species thus it’s different other frogs. ) Finally, it started dividing!! In the cells, the DNA of the extinct frog was seen. It’s in 2013.

The next was also lucky that from the museum, the speaker’s project team could found much better quality DNA of Thylacine that humans had not been able to get their fingers. The possibility of the success of cell division is high.

However, is it different from cloning? Is it right to bring back extinct animals?

The story didn’t tell us the continuation of those projects.

Words in this story
thylacine /noun/ Tasmanian wolf