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2 months ago

Ancient 'fruit tissue' found in permafrost has been propagated by scientists in Russia. Does the Campion's resurrection inspire in you hope or dread?

The seeds of the fruits, which were literally squirrelled away in a Siberian river bank 30,000-years ago, are not viable, but scientists have grown new plants from elements of the fruit tissue. This suggests the possibility of a 'Jurassic' botanical garden some time in the future. So, what do you think? What benefits could this new propagating technique bring? And what disasters?
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DISKIN31

  1 month ago
Not sure, you could say it died off for a reason, so why bring it back, others might say why not
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jjpenman396

  1 month ago
I'm not entirely sure,I am certain plants that have healing qualities could be made so that certain types of medicines would be protected, on the other hand who knows what horrors could be invented by scientists.
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vepenny

  1 month ago
I like to try to be positive about things when I can and this does sound really exciting on the face of it. I suppose it will be fun just to see what develops from these plants and whether there is anything that we can use to develop new strains of foods or medicines that could benefit the planet. I suppose, however, that that other side of the coin is that there may be diseases of poisons that we are not aware of at present. This would be problematic at best.
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chokkimonster

  1 month ago
I'm not sure if meddling with nature in this way is a good idea or not. There are plenty of plants around currently that haven't been studied properly and everyday more plants and animals become endangered because we are wrecking their habitats. I think that it is more important to protect the diverse flora and fauna that we currently have on this planet than to try to resurrect plants and animals that became extinct thousands of years ago. Apparently the Russian scientists are also planning on trying to resurrect a woolly mammoth from the DNA of a frozen one found in Siberia.
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Honeysuly

  1 month ago
I think it is not useful at all to grow back this plant . . . .. . . . . . .
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customer27

  1 month ago
I think it's interesting to discover previously unknown life on the planet. At least conservationists can't blame this plants demise on human 'pollution'.
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stevie-rose

  1 month ago
wow science amazes me, what an incredible thing to be able to do, it's a very interesting idea and concept :-)
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muckymyers

  1 month ago
i really am not interested in this kind of thing i find it quite boring and a waste of time
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helenr9653

  1 month ago
I'm not really sure what will come of this new technique, but it seems that all new discoveries have both positive and negative consequences.
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marzan12

  1 month ago
Sounds excieting, but its not really when you think about it, its better not to mess about with nature and they should leave it alone.
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