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.
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What could possibly go wrong?
4000 years ago?
Then the Egyptians used them to build the Pyramids......... ....
Anyone who believes a word of this has never heard of “epigenetics”.
The animal they create will be nothing like a mammoth because it’s environment will be nothing like a mammoth’s, it’s food will be nothing like a mammoth and most importantly...the womb where it gestates will be nothing like a mammoth’s.
A couple of sabre-toothed cats and some giant beavers, cave bears, wooly rhinos, dire wolves, and ground sloths would be cool, too.
Then Matty will REALLY have something to tell Hatty.
revive the mammoths along with a few world destroying ameebers that we can name Joe for short.
Cool. I can go shoot woolly mammoths with my 1911 now instead of just dreaming about it.
Oh, I forgot, I’m not into that kinda stuff any more. But just sayin’, one COULD, if one still HAD a 1911.
Exactly.
Shakes head, more folks who do not believe anyone is higher up than we are, and so they decide to start trying their hand at making God like decisions.
What could go wrong?
Dear Lord, please - guide and strengthen us.
Tatt
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