Can extinct animals be resurrected?

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A new study demonstrated the isolation and sequencing of RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen kept at room temperature in a museum collection over a century ago.
For the first time, skin and skeletan muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species were reconstructed.
The researchers emphasise that their findings have ramifications for international efforts to restore extinct animals, such as the Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as studies into pandemic RNA viruses.
The Tasmanian tiger, commonly known as the thylacine, was a magnificent apex carnivorous marsupial that formerly roamed the Australian continent and Tasmania.
This unusual species met its end following European colonisation, when it was considered an agricultural pesr and a bounty of 1 euro was imposed by 1888 for each full grown animal slain. 
The last known surviving Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936 at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo.
Recent de extinction attempts have concentrated on the Tasmanian tiger, whose native habitat in Tasmania is still mostly maintained, and whose restoration could assist in restoring past environmental equilibriums lost following its extinction. 
However, rebuilding a functional living Tasmanian tigee requires not only a thorough understanding of its genome (DNA), but also of tissue specific gene expression dynamics and gene control, which can only be obtained by researching its transcriptome (RNA).

Did you know?
Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger or the woolly mammoth is not a trivial task, and will require a deep knowledge of both the genome and transcriptome regulation of such renowned species, someting that only now is starting to be revealed.

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Some footages of Tasmanian tiger: (click here)

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