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An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species. By comparing fragments of the extinct rat’s genetic instruction book with the genome of a living relative, the Norway brown rat, the team was able to recover about 95 percent of the extinct genome. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-de-extinct-christmas-rat-species-gene-editing 34 comments 9/3/2022 science

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Probing the genomic limits of de-extinction in the Christmas Island rat: Current Biology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00249-4 1 comment

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