Month: September 2022

RESURRECTION OF FUNCTIONAL TASMANIAN TIGER DNA was achieved in transgenic mice, showing the revival of non coding DNA, after recovery of a sample from a museum specimen. "While other studies have examined extinct coding DNA function in vitro, this is the first example of the restoration of extinct non-coding DNA and examination of its function in vivo." http://lnkd.in/dCgNDk5 View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL DATABASES may be all that is needed for archiving purposes. The raw DNA sequence can be used to reconstruct a simple organism such as a virus. More complex organisms are possible when there is a near living relative, according to Harvard's George Church, who is keen to resurrect extinct species from DNA samples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biological_databases View in LinkedIn

GIANT DNA DATABASES EXIST TODAY. These bioinformatics databases contain many kingdoms of creatures and is the modern virtual repository. There are about 2,826 databases and tools at present count. http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/obrc/ View in LinkedIn

NORWEGIAN BARCODE OF LIFE. "Since 2009, when Norway launched the project to catalog every native species living in its borders, scientists running the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative have identified 1,165 new species ... there are roughly 55,000 distinct species of life living in the country, so far about 41,000 have been discovered." http://lnkd.in/dkEu_8K View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL GENOME INITIATIVE by the Smithsonian Institute "recently started a project akin to the Norwegian Barcode of Life network, a plan to sequence the DNA of each and every one of Earth’s identified species ... called the Global Genome Initiative." http://lnkd.in/dkEu_8K View in LinkedIn

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE to document the DNA of 1.3 million species. "The plan is to eventually freeze embryos, seeds, and other genetic samples from as many of Earth's life-forms as possible ... (At the) Smithsonian Institute's biorepository ... that has space for more than 4.2 million tiny vials of cryogenically frozen tissue samples." http://lnkd.in/dtVxkW6 View in LinkedIn

THE BARCODING CHINESE PLANTS PROJECT (2009) "with the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species (GBOWS) ... 60 research groups from 22 research institutes and universities to evaluate the candidate barcode markers, and to barcode around 6,000 species of plants in China, including the seed collection within the GBOWS facility." http://lnkd.in/dB3GikU View in LinkedIn

BIG SAMPLE BANKS. "San Diego Zoo ... has an extensive database of animal genomes, a "seed bank," and a "frozen zoo" of cell cultures from more than 9,000 animals; the University of California, Santa Cruz, with the world's most extensive online database of genomes; and the U.S. Department of Energy, with an online database." http://lnkd.in/dtVxkW6 View in LinkedIn

SPECIES REGENESIS VERSUS ARCHIVAL CONSERVATION. The biological tools are largely at hand today, with some luck and hard work, to revive most of the many species where DNA has been recovered intact and sequenced. This topic has generated a lively debate. View in LinkedIn

RECOVERY OF EXTINCT SPECIES. "De-extinction, resurrection biology, or species revivalism is the controversial process of creating an organism, which is a member of or resembles an extinct species, or a breeding population of such organisms. Cloning is the most widely proposed method, although selective breeding has also been proposed." http://lnkd.in/dFz2nP7 View in LinkedIn