Chickens Aid Dodo Preservation

This is a news story, published by MailOnline, that relates primarily to New York University Langone news.

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Scientists 'could use chickens to bring the dodo back from extinction'

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Scientists at New York University Langone have devised a technique that involves creating genetically-modified birds.

They do this by taking cells from domestic chicken specifically the ones that will eventually develop into sperm or egg cells and growing them in a dish.

Then, large sections of DNA from another species, the wild red junglefowl, are inserted to replace the existing DNA of the chicken.

These 'edited' reproductive cells are then inserted into the embryos as they are developing in an egg.

Over time these chicks will hatch, grow up, mate naturally and produce genetically modified offspring.

The young will be 'some sort of wild-looking chicken'.

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