When did the Australian Museum say they were halting the DNA replication of a Thylacine project ?
In 2008 researchers Andrew J. Pask and Marilyn B. Renfree from the University of Melbourne and Richard R. Behringer from the University of Texas at Austin reported that they managed to restore functionality of a gene " Col2A1 enhancer " obtained from 100 year - old ethanol - fixed thylacine tissues from museum collections .