The woolly mammoth could be resurrected within a few years if a new biotech firm is successful.
Bioscience company Colossal plans to impregnate an elephant with an embryo made of mammoth and elephant cells.
This de-extinction is made possible by CRISPR gene-editing technology which, like molecular scissors, can insert the extinct DNA into the genome of an Asian elephant.
Mammoth DNA, collected from tusks, bones and other preserved body parts found in ice, will be sequenced to create an “elephant-mammoth hybrid” that looks like a furrier, larger elephant with smaller ears and a high-domed head.
An “elephant-mammoth hybrid” looks like a furrier, larger elephant with smaller ears and a high-domed head.
Already, thousands of changes have been made to a cell nucleus; it’s not known exactly how many are needed to bring the beasts back and enable them to survive in the freezing Arctic.
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The CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences, a company that wants to bring woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back from extinction using DNA editing.
Woolly mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years, but now the CIA is investing in a biotech firm that wants to bring them back.
The CIA is funding research into resurrecting extinct animals — including the woolly mammoth and tiger-like thylacine — according to news reports.
Via a venture capital investment firm called In-Q-Tel, which the CIA funds, the American intelligence agency has pledged money to the Texas-based tech company Colossal Biosciences. According to Colossal’s website, the company’s goal is to “see the woolly mammoth thunder upon the tundra once again” through the use of genetic engineering — that is, using technology to edit an organism’s DNA.
www.livescience.com/cia-wooly-mammoth-de-extinction
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