A modern (and genetic) Noah's Ark to archive biodiversity

    A modern (and genetic) Noah's Ark to archive biodiversity

    To preserve animal species from the global flood, Noah built an ark and loaded them onto it. To preserve biodiversity and their genetic heritage, also in light of the speed with which animals are in danger of extinction, the University of California has instead started the 10k Genome Project and will load their DNA on it.



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    To preserve the animal species from the great flood, Noah built an ark and loaded them on it. To keep the biodiversity and their genetic heritage, also in light of the speed with which the animals are in danger of extinction, the University of California has instead started the "10k Genome Project”And will charge us on theirs DNA.



    The biblical project presented on the Journal of Heredity in fact, it provides for the transcription of the sequence of the genetic code of 10 thousand specimens of different species of vertebated animals and David Haussler, the molecular engineer, modern Noah, at the head of ark genetics, will thus preserve the DNA of a specimen for each family of mammals, fish, birds and amphibians that will be used by scientists to compare archived species and study their evolutionary path over the last 600 million years.

    Cost 34 million euro, the “10k Genome Project”, which it will occupy 68 researchers selected worldwide and brought together in a consortium, it will be able to catalog thousands of genetic sequences by creating a huge database that could (the conditional is a must) serve, in the future, to "recreate" in the laboratory, a bit like in the Jurassic Park movies, the animals that have become extinct in the meantime.



    Simona Falasca

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