A biobank of cellular material to be housed at the Museum of the Future aims to help safeguard the future of endangered animals across the UAE.

US start-up Colossal Biosciences has explored the use of gene editing to β€œde-extinct” species that disappeared long ago, including the woolly mammoth, dodo, Tasmanian tiger and dire wolf.

That ambition has been met with widespread scepticism within the scientific community, with many researchers arguing that resurrecting extinct species is not possible.

Preserving genetic material from living species that are under threat, however, is widely seen as a more realistic application of advancing gene-editing technologies.

Using similar techniques, Co

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