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This may be a story written for kids, but there is a lot to take away for adults. I found myself thinking about the story and meanings that could be found in the plot. Gilbert said old DNA was like a book that has gone through a shredder, while the genome of a modern species is like an intact "reference book" that can be used to piece together the fragments of its degraded counterpart. Coco Austin, 44, displays her famous curves in cropped shirt as she and her husband Ice-T, 65, nail a gangster inspired look for Heidi Klum's Halloween party Donald Trump Jr. admits he relies on his accountants and 'knows nothing' about general practices as prosecutors grill him on the stand about ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg and his work in the family business So, as it stands with current technology, it may be impossible to ever recover the extinct rat's full sequence, as 'there will always be some kind of hybrid', according to Dr Gilbert.

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That’s the focus of Gilbert’s new study, published in the journal Current Biology, where his team used the Christmas Island rat ( Rattus macleari) as a model to explore such limitations in de-extinction via one particular method – genome editing. Genome editing methods for de-extinction Harry Styles and his girlfriend Taylor Russell take their romance to the next level as they 'enjoy secret romantic holiday at lavish Mustique resort'