‘Only hope we’ve got’: the audacious plan to genetically engineer Australia’s endangered northern quoll

In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinctionIn a laboratory in the University of Melbourne earlier this year, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern quoll.In plastic trays were groups of tissue cells of another Australian marsupial – the common and mouse-like fat-t