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Biotech company reveals breakthrough that could lead to revival of extinct woolly mammoth
NYPOST ^ | 3/6/2024 | DAVID PROPPER

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; paleontology; woollymammoth
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To: gov_bean_ counter

slow news day, perhaps.


21 posted on 03/07/2024 9:19:46 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Lion Den Dan
They went extinct, like many other Pleistocene megafauna, because the Younger Dryas cooling changed the climate faster than the tundra savannah they depended on could move south and because human hunters provided significant additional mortality.

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.

22 posted on 03/07/2024 9:23:01 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: bitt

Just think what the safari and taxidermy fees would be. :-)


23 posted on 03/07/2024 9:24:16 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: gov_bean_ counter

5 or 6 times.

I’ve lost count.


24 posted on 03/07/2024 9:26:07 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: bitt

25 posted on 03/07/2024 9:31:36 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bitt

Global warming killed the woolly mammoth but allowed humans to thrive on a much larger area.


26 posted on 03/07/2024 9:38:25 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: bitt
I recall reading about efforts to bring back the mammoth while I was in high school back in the 80's. That's how long this sort of thing has been floating around.

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.

27 posted on 03/07/2024 9:44:54 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: bitt

That you can does not mean you may. That you may does not mean you should.

What justifies this manipulation?


28 posted on 03/07/2024 10:00:57 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Let me guess; they will be classified as an “endangered species,” and people will lose their property rights wherever they are released."

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...

29 posted on 03/07/2024 10:12:36 AM PST by guest7
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To: Bob434
"awesome! Wooly Mammoth burgers are delicious!"

Can you imagine a "Buc-ee's Wooly Mammoth" Brisket sandwich?

More sauce please...

30 posted on 03/07/2024 10:17:07 AM PST by guest7
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To: Bob434

[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!


31 posted on 03/07/2024 10:17:12 AM PST by Lion Den Dan ( )
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To: guest7

lol- ill take 2 please-


32 posted on 03/07/2024 10:18:55 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Lion Den Dan

Yep- none of that lab grown vegetable meat like impossible meat burgers they serve today


33 posted on 03/07/2024 10:19:50 AM PST by Bob434
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To: bitt

> “It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one,

But will it *taste* like one?


34 posted on 03/07/2024 10:31:43 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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To: bitt

Not a good idea!


35 posted on 03/07/2024 10:34:10 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: bitt
***Northern Tuskers: Scientists One Colossal Step Closer to ‘De-Extinction’ of the Wooly Mammoth – But Why?***

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❗😠

36 posted on 03/07/2024 10:38:58 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Mammoth told me there'd be topics like these.

37 posted on 03/07/2024 11:13:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Yeah, and my personal guilt continues...


38 posted on 03/07/2024 11:15:03 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...Motels for Migrants give legitimate addresses for mail-in ballots.)
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To: VanShuyten; bitt
Hell, they already have de-extincted the Woolly cave man.Why not the woolly mammoth?



39 posted on 03/07/2024 11:15:20 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds like a mammoth project....,......


40 posted on 03/07/2024 11:16:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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