By Bob Walsh
In this Feb
2025 photo provided by Colossal Biosciences are genetically edited mice
with long, thick, woolly hair at a lab in Dallas, Texas.
A genetic research outfit has just managed to tweak the
genes of mice to develop woolly mice, in preparation to clone a Woolly
Mammoth.
The
organization, Colossal Biosciences, has been around for four years.
They have managed to retrieve DNA from Wooly Mammoths, which only went
extinct about 10,000 years ago, and altered some genes in mice to get
the hair color and texture. The organization has raised a shit-ton of
money, from sources ranging from the CIA to various celebrities.
The
group has claimed to have created elephant stems cells, which can be
programmed to become specific, including eggs. These could be used to
create elephant-mammoth hybrids.
The group also has plans to clone and reintroduce DoDo birds, just because they can, or at least think they can.
The
whole idea makes a fair number of people really nervous. Just because
something can be done that does not necessarily mean it should be done,
nor does it mean it is safe to do so.
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