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Selected Projects 20<strong>16</strong>-<strong>18</strong><br />
During my time studying Bioengineering at UMass<br />
Dartmouth I have learned a lot about the vast<br />
potentials of biotech<strong>no</strong>logy. I recall one topic that<br />
really struck a chord with me from my BIO 121 class,<br />
de-extinction. The professor described to us how a<br />
researcher in Australia had brought the southern<br />
gastric brooding frog back from extinction in his lab<br />
by using the same tech<strong>no</strong>logy that made Dolly the<br />
sheep a reality. He also briefly mentioned to us that<br />
a<strong>no</strong>ther research group wanted to use de-extinction<br />
to bring an ancient Ice Age species, the woolly<br />
mammoth, back into the wild. I read up on this a<br />
little more and learned that the project is led by Dr.<br />
George Church at Harvard University who is helping<br />
to develop the genetic editing tech<strong>no</strong>logy k<strong>no</strong>wn as<br />
CRISPR/Cas 9. Using this tech<strong>no</strong>logy he is attempting<br />
to swap out pieces of the ge<strong>no</strong>me of a somatic<br />
elephant cell until it resembles that of a woolly<br />
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Carson M. Longendorfer
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