Could gene-editing save quolls from extinction?
Publisher |
ABC Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Daily News
News
Publication Date |
May 08, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:04:55

Scientists in Australia and the US have used a new technique in gene editing to try to rescue the northern quoll from near extinction.

The quoll's population in northern Australia has plunged about 75 per cent in the past decade because it lacks resistance to cane toad poison. 

Guest: Dr Stephen Frankenberg, leading the northern quoll cane toad toxin resistance project at the University of Melbourne

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