Can This Fruit Be Saved? The banana as we know it is on a crash course toward extinction. For scientists, the battle to resuscitate the world's favorite fruit has begun—a race against time that just may be too late to win By Dan Koeppel Posted 06.19.2005 at 11:37 am http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-saved