Saturday, May 2, 2009

Scientists to Resurrect Ancient Gene to Replay Evolution

The movie "Jurassic Park" was a lesson in how resurrecting extinct organisms can go awry.

A new project plans to take a safer route: resurrect a single gene from an extinct species of bacteria.
This tiny snippet of DNA will be implanted in modern-day bacteria, with the goal of seeing whether evolution can be replayed in the lab.

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