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Daring plan to genetically engineer Australia’s endangered northern quoll

Earlier this year, in a laboratory at the University of Melbourne, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern region. Plastic trays contained groups of tissue cells from another Australian marsupial (the common and mouse-like fat-tailed dunnart); this… Read More »