How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever - Jack Horner
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Biology
Dinosaurs
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Palaeontology
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A world-renowned paleontologist takes readers all over the globe to reveal a new science that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur.
In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we’ve all seen dinosaurs—or at least somebody’s educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur, without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on Jurassic Park, and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of The New York Times’s Science Times section to reveal exactly what’s in store.
In the 1980s, Horner began using CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. At North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has extracted fossil molecules—proteins that survived 68 million years—from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner. These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are kissing cousins. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within: starting by growing a tail and eventually prompting it to grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. All of this is happening without changing a single gene.
This incredible research is leading to discoveries and applications so profound they’re scary in the power they confer on humanity. How to Build a Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this scientific revolution.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
April 3rd, 2023
Thanks MojoYugen.
Question: OK I can see how nuclear DNA gets manipulated, but surely you’ll still have chicken’s mitochondrial DNA?
April 3rd, 2023
Thanks for sharing
April 4th, 2023
@jeffrey2
https://www.hhmi.org/news/how-to-precisely-edit-mitochondrial-dna
They can futz with pretty much every bit of DNA. The problem is that they don’t know what all of it does. Rip out the wrong bit and you get a retardasourous or a non viable embryo.
April 4th, 2023
Be aware that this book was published in 2009.
April 4th, 2023
@arcadies
Cheers.
April 6th, 2023
Ive read a number of his books. In order to bring out these traits the embryos DNA would have to have the DNA that TRex used in order to get the tail and forelimbs. But I am very curious how they are manipulating the embryo to change the chicken. Without inserting the genes for that, they have awaken the TRex DNA that already exists in the embryo’s DNA.
Looking forward to see what is possible. Thanks for sharing!
July 23rd, 2024
Thank you.
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