India eyes a Jurassic Park moment: Extinct cheetahs may growl again via gene editing

The Indian Cheetah, last spotted in the early 50s, might just be resurrected through gene editing, akin to the dire wolf, which was “de-extincted” in the United States recently after 10,000 years of its existence. The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in the city, in collaboration with the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), is working jointly to achieve this feat.

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