Mice experiment as step to create mammoth-like elephants

GMOs can one day help fill the Arctic with genetically modified elephants and help stopping the warming.

These are the amazing allegations that an American company said on Tuesday that it had created mice with “mammothy -like features”. The ultimate goal of the massive biological science is to engineer the creatures similar to the mammoths that can help prevent frosty soil in the Arctic from fusion.

Criticism, including engineering -like creatures, has been overwhelmed by engineering, which is a large extension of mice hair, in addition to being immoral, and that the entire project represents a propaganda trick.

But the company says that the matter has been offended and that the mouse is an important tool on the way to restore the lands of the depleted land.

Huge biological science says that experiments with hairy mice were a step towards genetically modifying elephants to be hair and better capacity to tolerate the cold.

Its stated goal is to create herds of what the creatures similar to mammoth calls to live in Tandra in the Arctic. The company says that the grazing habits of creatures will encourage herbal lands to prosper and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that are launched from the melting of frost soil.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and is one of the main engines of global warming.

But critics say that there are important scientific challenges to overcome them before these changes in mice are tried on elephants.

Ben Lam, Ben LAM, told BBC News that woolen mice were a big step forward.

“We are on the right path to get the first cold elephant that was adapted by 2028, and this means that the first embryos are possessed by the end of 2026,” he said.

“Over time, we will get this full percentage of air -conditioned cold elephants that we can return to the wild that can interfere.”

The woolen mice had eight of their modified genes: seven genes of mice related to hair growth and eighth were a mammothy gene related to increased body fat.

The researchers found that animals have longer hair, but there is no evidence that the increased mammoth gene of fat had an effect.

The tremendous biological sciences were confronted by doubting the scientists who were not employed by the company. Their concerns include:

• The massive team changed the genes of mice long known as the formation of hair and the production of hairy mice. It is a great leap to move from woolen mice to the woolen elephants that the cold adapts to just five years.

• It will be difficult to produce a single Sufi elephant, but to produce hundreds or thousands needed to restore tundra in the Arctic will be more difficult.

• Genetic changes that may work in mice may lead to elephants, which leads to the suffering of animals.

• These modified creatures will be considered a whim by other elephants and rejected by other members of their herd.

“She does not seem to have practical use or any real scientific value,” said Dr. Helen Wallace of the campaign group.

“He is designed to obtain advertising, and I think most people will shock,” she added.

In response, the enormous researchers say they feel that they are asking the ruling. They say the mouse is a tool, as they say, to test whether the various genetic adjustments they planned are effective and safe before they try it on the elephants.

“Checking the validity of this work is really exciting for this project,” says Professor Beth Shapiro.

She adds that the company has other research programs that work in parallel, such as studying the development of the fetus and creating an artificial uterus for genetically modified elephants to grow, which the company says will ensure its goal of creating cold elephants in a few years.

Professor Shapiro is firmly scattered by the claim that the work is meaningless. She says that the company’s plan to re -present extinct species, such as Dodo and Tasmanian Tiger, as well as mammoths, will fill the environmental outlets that have been lost, thus restoring biological diversity and benefiting from the environment.

She adds that the genetic tools that develop at the same time already help the species at risk of extinction. This includes the development of an elephant vaccine against a fatal virus; Create genetically average pods in Australia known as Quolll to be resistant to the nerve toxins produced by the predator, Toad Cane; The diversity of genes in the pink bath in Mauritius.

Professor Shapiro says that the elephants will not suffer. The team is developing only viable embryos techniques, and believes that they will not be treated as an outlook either.

“We will really change a few messages in their DNA. The elephants will be born to mothers who will not see them as frequently because they will be largely as well, just a lot of hair and they can survive more cold climates.”