Re: OT: scientists recreate mouse from gene older than animal life

On 19/11/2024 05:35, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Scientists recreate mouse from gene older than animal life
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241118125716.htm
   New research sheds light on evolutionary origins of stem cells with groundbreaking experiment to create mouse using ancient genetic tools

It is probably not a coincidence that the single celled creature they used for this was an ancient flagellate. They were the first living things to actually have a viable protein motor of sorts and a whip tail which gave them their name.
Last common ancestor still with genes close enough to work in a mammal.
There may well be fungi or slime moulds similarly capable of this trick.
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Martin Brown