Fat Rodent Re-Designed: These Scientists Are Working To Resurrect the Extinct Christmas Island Rat Through DNA Editing
The initial rat, RFC-1 Or Rat F. Caraviello, is nasty, vicious, uneducated and talks like a jerk.
A huge success for science.
Not only was the team able to obtain almost all of the rodent’s genome, but since it diverged from other Rattus species relatively recently, it shares about 95% of its genome with a living rat, the Norway brown rat. “It was a quite a nice test model,” says Gilbert. “It’s the perfect case because when you sequence the genome, you have to compare it to a really good modern reference.” https://scitechdaily.com/forget-mammoths-these-scientists-are-working-to-resurrect-the-extinct-christmas-island-rat-through-dna-editing/
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