“They have made those changes in a quoll… a single letter change to that quoll's genome could allow that quoll not only to avoid becoming extinct, but to eat cane toads.”

Huberman Lab · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro

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engineered a single-amino-acid change in the northern quoll genome that confers resistance to the toxic cane toad toxin

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