Northern quolls are poisoned by eating cane toads Jurgen Freund/Nature Picture Library/Alamy
The US-based “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences claims a team it funds in Australia has taken “a major step” towards saving an endangered marsupial called the northern quoll.
The plan is to genetically modify the animals to make them resistant to the toxin of the invasive cane toad, but so far the team has only edited the cells of another marsupial.
The northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) is a small, mostly carnivorous marsupial found in northern…
