“If we could use cloning… there are tissue samples… unrelated to the individuals… we can take an egg… inject the cell… you don’t need the Yamanaka factors.”
Huberman Lab · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro
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What was described
used frozen tissue samples from the San Diego Frozen Zoo to clone ferrets and re-introduce genetic diversity
Said nearby on the same subject
“We cloned these wolves as a means to introduce new red-wolf genetic diversity into the existing red-wolf population using the same toolkit that we used to be able to clone and generate our direwolves.”
“I just brought warm samples and told my story. By the end of that meeting, she walked me over to the frozen set and was like, "all right, Amy, here's where RoRo's is going to live on the shelf”