Biotech company Colossal aims to “reincarnate” the extinct wooly mammoth in 2027 by introducing genetic information from mammoth remains to the biological makeup of its closest living r…
@AbouBenAdhem you can patent how you make rats and knock out mice, so kind of, yes. But not necessarily the living organism. The mice have been genetically altered to “knock out” genes (strings of dna that code for a protein). The organisms - the mice with the knocked out genes- are licensed as research materials. That is my understanding.
Notwithstanding all of that, creating clones of woolly mammoths is a spectacularly bad idea and probably unethical. WTF are you going to do with one if you succeed? @btaf45
IMO our overriding priority should be maximizing earth’s remaining biodiversity. While I’m not convinced that resurrecting extinct species is the most effective way to do it—or that this case is how it should be done—I’m not ready to declare it a bad idea in principle. Especially if we’re talking about a relatively recent extinction caused by human overhunting.
I don't care any more. It's not like the world could be more fucked. Wooly mammoths, I'm here for it.
Seriously though, between climate change's heating, the tornadoes and the wildfires a lot of species are toast. And if we want to bring carbon back under control at this point (with the sea now releasing it instead of containing it), we'll need some kind of genetically engineered plants. So, given all these things, there's no reason to say no to mammoths, bring it.
They want to introduce them to the Arctic environments… poor Mammoths are being brought back just in time to be among the first mass extrinctions of climate change
If they’re basically hybrids of mammoths and tropical Asian elephants, they might be able to tolerate a greater range of environments than their parent species.
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