Scientists bring 500 million-year-old bacteria back to life

[W.G.Ewald]

Jurassic Park in a Petri dish: Scientists recreate 500 million-year-old bacteria in lab - what could possibly go wrong? | Mail Online

A 500 million-year-old bacteria has been brought back to life in a laboratory at Georgia Tech in an experiment with echoes of Jurassic Park's disastrous recreation of the dinosaurs.

The researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene and inserted it into a modern E Coli bacteria.

 

[drkrn]

wow that's a great achievement.

 

[Singh]

Some cutting edge science this.

 

[Yusuf]

What did they do? Give a mouth to mouth

Some amazing stuff this. Will they someday revive dead people?