Meet the Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From the Dead Wall Street Journal – October 9, 2018 “The last known passenger pigeon—a bird named Martha—died in captivity at a Cincinnati...
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By Ben J. Novak “Gone the way of the Dodo” is the all-too-common sigh of remorse uttered when another species joins the growing list of recent extinctions. The last Dodo…
Revive & Restore has set out to expand conservation practice by demonstrating how new genomic tools can be applied to a variety of serious wildlife problems that have proved unsolvable…
Ben Novak and Paul Marini The biggest challenges facing The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback will be obtaining germ cell cultures, engineering cells and birds), and then breeding and raising passenger…
By Ben J. Novak We are frequently asked by students what education pathway should they pursue to develop a career in next generation conservation – such as biotech-based genetic rescue…
Revive & Restore was pleased to host Beth Shapiro for a presentation on her book How to Clone a Mammoth on Monday May 11, 2015 at the Marines’ Memorial Theater at Union Square, San Francisco,…
-By Stewart Brand This article was published on April 21, 2015 in Aeon. The idea that we are edging up to a mass extinction is not just wrong – it’s…
A follow up to “Why birds are a challenge” by Ben J. Novak The next phase of The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback is approaching: the engineering of passenger pigeon mutations…
– by Ben Novak The passenger pigeon was once the world’s most plentiful bird. September 1 is the centenary of the bird’s extinction. Martha, the last pigeon of the species, died…
By Beth Shapiro, PhD Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Co-Principal Investigator of the Paleogenomics Lab, University of California Santa Cruz As you may know, a different group (not us — Ouch!)…
