Earlier this year, scientists at The University of Melbourne established a research lab dedicated to developing technologies that could bring back the carnivorous marsupial
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officially known as a thylacine, that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native Australian island of Tasmania.
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Now, with a $5 million donation from earlier this year, and a new partnership with a Texas-based genetic engineering company called Colossal Biosciences
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which is also working on a project to recreate the woolly mammoth in an altered form and return it to the Arctic tundra
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scientists are harnessing advances in genetics, ancient DNA retrieval and artificial reproduction to bring back the animal to the land of the living.
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The project involves several complicated steps, but scientists say the marsupial can be recreated using stem cells and gene editing reproductive technology.
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The team plans to take stem cells from a living marsupial species with similar DNA, and turn them into "thylacine" cells to "bring back" the extinct species
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"We are using the very latest DNA engineering technologies and developing new tech for marsupial stem cell derivation and assisted reproductive techniques
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