Scientists Pushing Us Past the Point of No Return with Genetically Engineered Fruit Flies
In the 1993 hit “Jurassic Park,” geneticists discover dinosaur DNA inside a prehistoric mosquito trapped within amber. Although sequences in the genetic material were missing, frog genes were spliced in to fill missing information. Scientists soon brought the Mesozoic creatures back to life (sadly, just in the movie.)
While all the dinosaurs are made female to prevent reproduction, it’s soon hinted that the genes used to “de-extinct” them come from an amphibian capa
Read more »