Project Seeks To Bring Extinct Species Back

NPR | March 22, 2013 10:47 a.m.

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Although the gastric brooding frog became extinct in the mid-1980s, the genome of that Australian amphibian species is alive again thanks to modern biotech techniques. Michael Archer, leader of the 'Lazarus Project,' describes early efforts to resurrect extinct species.