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11 Apr 2013 19:25

Scientists may soon bring a species of frog (Rheobatrachus silus or the gastric brooding frog) back from the dead. The frog--which bizarrely swallowed its eggs, incubated them in its stomach, and gave birth to them through its mouth--has been extinct since 1984. However, researchers from the University of New South Wales harvested dead cell nuclei, frozen in the 70s, and implanted them in a living egg of a different but related frog species. Some of the eggs began to divide into early embyros, a...
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