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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Clone zone: Bringing extinct animals back from the dead

BBC News - Clone zone: Bringing extinct animals back from the dead: "Here they are frozen and then stored with samples that have been collected, by a network of vets and scientists, from endangered species all around the world.

The team behind the Frozen Ark says that it could provide the ultimate back-up plan for when all other conservation efforts fail.

Dr Ann Clarke, one of the Frozen Ark's founders, comments: 'Like Dolly the sheep, although scientists do not like to talk too much about this, there is a very real possibility that we might be able to one day bring back an extinct or a very endangered species.'

While bringing extinct animals back from the dead sounds like science fiction, thanks to recent advances in cloning technology it is much closer to reality than you might think."

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