Re: Species Resurrection

From: dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (DK)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:08:11 -0500 (EST)

Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've written a basic essay on species resurrection.

--> http://timtyler.org/species_resurrection/ <--

The essay starts:

Resurrecting species that had previously been thought extinct now seems
to be quite technically possible.

Not a chance. All modern technologies require you to come up,
as a bare minimum, with chromosomes, not just with DNA sequences.
That means all the DNA methylation, all the histones and auxillary
proteins present in the right places in right amounts all with proper
modifications. No way.

Not to mention the most immediate and trivial obstacle that
we don't currently have technology of synthesizing DNA
that is on the order of 100,000,000 bp long.

DK

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