Futureproof Extra: The Trouble with Cloning Birds
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
English - August 09, 2022 06:30 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScience radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jurassic Park came out in 1993, then "Dolly" the sheep was cloned in 1996, and yet here we are more than two decades later and we still haven’t got a dinosaur theme park.
So, what’s the hold-up?
Well aside from the many significant ethical issues, the scientific challenges are huge and one in particular that adversely affects much more reasonable de-extinction projects is the simple fact that right now we can’t clone birds or dinosaurs for that matter.
Why?
Ben Novak is Lead Scientist with Revive & Restore, he joins Jonathan to discuss.