{"id":5307,"date":"2014-12-08T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bioengineer.org\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2014-12-08T13:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:54:44","slug":"building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a dinosaur from a chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits \u2014 including teeth, tails, and even hands \u2014 to make a “Chickenosaurus”.<\/p>\n