Australian Scientists Bring Frog Back From Extinction. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]As part of a "Lazarus Project" to try to bring the Australian gastric-brooding frog back from extinction a UNSW-led team has succeeded in producing early stage cloned embryos containing the DNA of the frog, which died out 30 year ago. The unpublished research is presented publicly for the first time at the TEDx DeExtinction conference in Washington today. Gastric-brooding frogs were unique in incubating their young in their stomachs. Source: [url]http://phys.org/news/2013-03-lost-frog-dna-revived.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2whOACfhY20[/media]

It begins. Again.

[quote]cloned embryos containing the DNA of the frog[/quote] Oh yeah, Jurassic Park here we come! I wonder what creature will next be resurrected from the mists of prehistoric - [quote]which died out 30 years ago.[/quote] Ooooh. Well, that's still cool. Good job, science!

Why do I get the feeling that the naming came from a Doctor Who fan? Because both(the episode "The Lazarus Experiment") are essentially saving something from extinction.

Or Mass Effect

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;39929228]Why do I get the feeling that the naming came from a Doctor Who fan? Because both(the episode "The Lazarus Experiment") are essentially saving something from extinction.[/QUOTE] Or Lazarus was a figure in the bible who was brought back from death by Jesus? [editline]15th March 2013[/editline] nah couldn't be that

[QUOTE=Zambies!;39929235]Or Lazarus was a figure in the bible who was brought back from death by Jesus? [editline]15th March 2013[/editline] nah couldn't be that[/QUOTE] I don't know anything about the Bible, wasn't aware of this.

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;39929246]I don't know anything about the Bible, wasn't aware of this.[/QUOTE] I don't know anything about Doctor Who or the Bible. You could tell me Jesus was an ancient undying being that can travel through space and time and I wouldn't doubt you.

[img]http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2013/1-lostfrogdnar.jpg[/img] Because who doesn't want more of this.

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;39929246]I don't know anything about the Bible, wasn't aware of this.[/QUOTE] It's why they chose the name Lazarus for that episode. It's also why pretty much anything involving reviving the dead will have something named Lazarus involved. Lazarus Pits in the Batman universe, Project Lazarus in Mass Effect 2, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Phenomenon]Lazarus syndrome[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign]the Lazarus sign[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon]Lazarus taxon[/url], so on and so forth.

So, basically, as long as we still have modern science nothing will go extinct? Awesome.

They still go extinct. It's just a matter of how long they stay extinct.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;39929269]I don't know anything about Doctor Who or the Bible. You could tell me Jesus was an ancient undying being that can travel through space and time and I wouldn't doubt you.[/QUOTE] Jesus was an ancient undying being that can travel through space and time.

Some frogs have been known to change their gender in single gender communities in order to mate.. soo uh.. nature.. uh.. finds a way!

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;39929269]You could tell me Jesus was an ancient undying being that can travel through space and time and I wouldn't doubt you.[/QUOTE] well this is pretty much correct anyway

I remember they brought back an extinct type of mountain goat some years back, glad to see stuff like this is still being worked on and done.

That's awesome.

It's obvious they named it Lazarus because that's the name of the machine that bring people back from the dead in Casper: The friendly ghost.

Now bring back the Dodo

Don't expect much on the dinosaur front though... [quote]By comparing the specimens' ages and degrees of DNA degradation, the researchers calculated that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means that after 521 years, half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on. The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years [the last dinos roamed some 65-million years ago]. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier -- perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.[/quote] [url]http://geekologie.com/2012/10/i-refuse-to-believe-scientists-claim-its.php[/url]

a little frogception going on there

Awesome stuff, there are so many amphibian species endangered or threatened. I would hope that we can start a amphibian genetic catalog so that we can repopulate areas through cloning.

Can we get back Thylacines please?

I want them to bring back mammoths

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;39935557]I want them to bring back mammoths[/QUOTE] They're working on it, be patient.

and so the legacy of ra's al ghul begins all evil masterminds begin small

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;39935557]I want them to bring back mammoths[/QUOTE] From what I understand Japanese and Russian scientists are trying to [url=http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/19/japanese-scientist-wants-to-clone-a-woolly-mammoth-in-the-next-five-years/]do this.[/url] and are apparently well on the way to doing so. Though reading this thread, all I can think of is; [img]http://www.rickbluhm.com/portfolio720jpg/jpit/jpitlab.jpg[/img] [thumb]http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Jurassic-Park-3D_10.jpg[/thumb]

This is fucking awesome news. Gastric brooding frogs are crazy, and their ability to turn off stomach acid secretions so they can hold their young in there was what made people want to study them so badly long ago since it could potentially help deal with things like stomach ulcers in people. Hope this works out.

Why is this good news? [img]http://amphibianrescue.org/amphibianwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/whyfrogs-matter.jpg[/img]