Posted on 03/07/2024 8:55:21 AM PST by bitt
The woolly mammoth could roam the Earth once again.
That’s the goal of Colossal Biosciences as the biotech company announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in its mission to revive the 6-ton, 16-foot animal back from extinction.
The Dallas-based company said it has created a set of stem cells from an Asian elephant in hopes of bringing back a creature that would be eerily similar to the woolly mammoth, according to reports.
“This is probably the most significant step in the early stages of this project,” said geneticist and company co-founder George Church, a Harvard University professor, according to NPR.
The woolly mammoth went the way of the dodo bird about 4,000 years ago, and while the company wouldn’t bring back the same exact species, it would create an animal that has similar traits like a heavy fur coat and plenty of fat to withstand freezing temperatures.
“It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction,” the company said.
The company’s goal, however lofty, is to eventually genetically tinker a stem cell’s nucleus with genes from a mammoth, then merge that with an elephant egg, the Washington Post reported. Then the embryo would be placed in an elephant surrogate who would hopefully give birth.
But not everyone is on board with Colossal’s goal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
slow news day, perhaps.
Some pygmy mammoths survived in Novaya Zemlya islands until about 4,000 years ago. The population was too small and severe inbreeding caused an accumulation of genetic defects, resulting in their extinction.
Just think what the safari and taxidermy fees would be. :-)
5 or 6 times.
I’ve lost count.
Global warming killed the woolly mammoth but allowed humans to thrive on a much larger area.
One problem the journalists don't address is that it's not enough to find a strand of partly decayed DNA and repair it with sections of elephant DNA or their best guesses. You then need proteins (basically cellular machinery) that are precisely matched up to execute the DNA blueprint.
Sticking mammoth DNA into an elephant cell without also modifying the proteins will be like walking into a Corvette factory with the blueprints for a Camaro, trying to get the latter built. Without modification of the equipment along the assembly line such a task will prove impossible, even if the vehicles share many similarities.
That you can does not mean you may. That you may does not mean you should.
What justifies this manipulation?
I want one.....
...to take to Joe's beach house, and let him crap in his yard.
...so Joe and tell the "reporters", about when he was a kid, and his "Long Neck Neanderthal" neighbors would walk their Wooly Mammoths by his house, to let them crap in his yard; while Joe "sniffed" their "wooly fur".
One of Joe's Long Neck neighbors...
...and one of Barry's...
Can you imagine a "Buc-ee's Wooly Mammoth" Brisket sandwich?
More sauce please...
[The woolly booger went extinct for a reason.]]
Yes, because they were delicious!...........
And they were made out of meat. I bet you can’t eat just one!
lol- ill take 2 please-
Yep- none of that lab grown vegetable meat like impossible meat burgers they serve today
> “It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one,
But will it *taste* like one?
Not a good idea!
The same nutty 'scientists' that suggested correcting the dangers of global warming by changing Earth's orbit around the Sun. Just isolating these nut cases may not be enough in order to save humanity❗😠
Mammoth told me there'd be topics like these.
Yeah, and my personal guilt continues...
Sounds like a mammoth project....,......
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