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Wooly Mammoths finna eat
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:44 pm
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The effort to regrow a woolly mammoth from the edited genes of an Asian elephant took a petri dish-sized move toward reality. De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences announced they can now propagate Asian elephant cells indefinitely from a single source in a lab, using the first-ever induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC).
The iPSC cells represent a single cell source that offers access to every other type of cell in a body, potentially allowing the creation of sperm and egg cells from the iPSCs. “Elephants are a very special species, and we have only just begun to scratch the surface of their fundamental biology,” Eriona Hysolli, head of biological sciences as Colossal, said in a statement.
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Because mammoth DNA is a 99.6 percent match to the DNA of the Asian elephant, Colossal believes that gene editing can eventually create an embryo of a woolly mammoth. The eventual goal is to repopulate parts of the Arctic with the new woolly mammoth—dubbed a “functional mammoth,” this creature may effectively be an Asian elephant with a new type of hair and layer of blubber—to strengthen local plant life with the migration patterns and dietary habits of the beast that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
By tweaking the genes of the Asian elephant, the team believes they can functionally tune the animal to closely resemble the extinct species. Having access to the iPSC may speed the process along, will ensure the team doesn’t have to interfere with the reproductive cycles of living elephants, and gives Colossal a roadmap for further genetic manipulation.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:47 pm to Jim Rockford
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We finna to eat Wooly Mammoths
FIFY
Make the damn roux.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:47 pm to Jim Rockford
frick yeah
But aren’t Asian elephants way smaller than wooly mammoths?
But aren’t Asian elephants way smaller than wooly mammoths?
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:50 pm to biglego
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But aren’t Asian elephants way smaller than wooly mammoths?
I don't see how these are going to survive with humans at the current population.
I get this idealistic idea that nothing should have ever went extinct, but evolution is happening every second of every day.
Humans should be trying to freeze evolution.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:51 pm to Jim Rockford
Science imitating art.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:52 pm to Jim Rockford
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Colossal Biosciences
Great name
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:52 pm to baldona
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I don't see how these are going to survive with humans at the current population.
They're not going to be roaming Central Park. The arctic is so sparsely populated there probably won't be many human interactions except for tourists.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:57 pm to Jim Rockford
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probably won't be many human interactions except for tourists.
The videos of people posing next to them or trying to pet them will be awesome.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:58 pm to Jim Rockford
That's the ones that ate all of the black Samurai!
Posted on 3/12/24 at 3:58 pm to Jim Rockford
This is actually really cool.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:04 pm to Jim Rockford
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De-extinction company
I saw that movie already.
it didn't end well.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:05 pm to Jim Rockford
There are certainly no impending unintended consequences to this sort of thing.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:06 pm to Nutriaitch
These are cuddly wooly mammoths not GDCK dinosaurs.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:06 pm to Nutriaitch
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I saw that movie already.
it didn't end well.
Matter of perspective, depending on who's side of things you were on and who you were rooting for.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:17 pm to dakarx
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Matter of perspective, depending on who's side of things you were on and who you were rooting for.
I kept hoping Godzilla would show up and wreck shite.
I also sorta wanted to see the velociraptor go to a theater and watch Snow White.
when neither of those happened, then I was banking on a kid getting eaten or something.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:19 pm to Jim Rockford
I can't believe it's taken this long. Let's heckin geaux.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 4:28 pm to Jim Rockford
How would you gestate them? Wouldn't there be problems with a female elephant carrying a much larger and different animal? Or would this be closer to a horse/mule experiment?
Jurassic Park sidestepped this issue by banking on the fact that people would be too dumb to ponder how a T-Rex could hatch from an Emu egg.
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