earlier this month I made a post about De-extinction,
photograph courtesy of Colossal Biosciences, which was founded in 2021 by entrepreneurs
Ben Lamm (left) and George Church (right), and here is another article about bringing back the mammoth, and if these two gentleman above are to be believed, the mammoth could be back with us in 2028! After reconstructing the woolly mammoth genetic code, they
plan to insert it into donor egg cells from Asian elephants, fertilize the
embryos in vitro, and implant them into surrogates, dodos and thylacines (Tasmanian tigers) are also on the list
for de-extinction, but the woolly mammoth has been Colossal's flagship effort I
should say this is not some small company working out of a garden shed, since
its launch in 2021, Colossal's staff has grown to 115 full-time scientists and
60 external collaborators, the article I posted about De-extinction is here, and the latest article about the subject mentioned above is here, mammoths in 2028, that is only 5 years time, what a sight it would be to see one alive and kicking!
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