Irish Examiner view: Creating new forms of life raises worrying ethical issues 

Life and research has moved on hugely since Steven Spielberg's film 'Jurassic Park'.

There’s a moment in the 1993 film Jurassic Park where the sceptical expert Ian Malcolm tells genetic engineers: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Life, and research, has moved forward hugely in the past 30 years. To the extent that “de-extinction” is now an industry into which biotech companies are willing to invest substantial sums.