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New biotech startup founded by geneticist George Church will try to reverse engineer woolly mammoths from elephant embryos using CRISPR. Discuss...
- Spared no expense.palimpsest
- Like trying to reverse engineer a wolf from a poodlegrafician
- Well people have definitely shown that you can sort of get back to a wild dog (wolf like) through breeding. Can’t get to wolf exactly though, not how it works.monospaced
- With focused intent and some crispr I don’t see why this would be impossible.monospaced
- Elephants and mammoths seem closer than poodles and wolves from my perspective. Fascinating stuff.monospaced
- You can breed a poodle with a wolf and you already have half a wolf. They share 99.9% of DNA.palimpsest
- While mammoths and African elephants share a common ancestor dogs are direct descendants of wolves.
Up to each one to decide what's closer.palimpsest - I gave that example exactly because even with very similar DNA you can't do it.
But sure, let them try. We'll need mammoths for the next ice age anywaygrafician - The mammuthus and modern day elephant are both closely related, they are both from the same Elephantidae family.utopian
- I thought they had been doing this for like 60 years nowscarabin
- There are some projects ongoing to try to reverse engineer chickens into dinosaurs.
https://www.inverse.…yuekit - Obviously this is much harder than the mammoth but apparently they got as far as generating a dinosaur snout and feet on a chicken embryo.yuekit
- A graphic design forum, that's where i go for the truth about genetic engineering.jagara
- Yes. Glad to see we have genetic engineering experts here as well! Do your own research.inteliboy
- Did my own research...checks outs!utopian
- Wasn’t there a film about this in the 90s? I’m sure it will all work out fine.Chimp
- Lol @jagaraOBBTKN