Washington – It is still extinction forever, but scientists in the biotechnology company Huge biological science They try what they say is the best thing to restore old monsters – genetically geometric animals with characteristics -like characteristics like Sufi mammoth.
The Sufi mammoth toured the frozen tundra in Europe, Asia and North America until it became extinct about 4000 years ago.
Colossal achieved a splash in 2021 when he unveiled an ambitious plan to revive the Sufi mammoth and then Dodo. Since then, the company has focused on identifying the main features of extinct animals by studying old DNA, with the aim of “genetically engineering in live animals.”
External scientists have mixed views on whether this strategy will be useful for memorization.
“You actually repeat anything – you do not repeat the old past,” said Christopher Preston, an expert in wildlife and environment at the University of Montana, who did not participate in the research.
On Tuesday, Colossal announced that its scientists simultaneously liberated seven genes in mice to create mice with long hair and mystical thickness. They called the additional rodents as “the huge Sufi mouse”.
The results were published online, but they have not yet been published in a magazine or examined by independent scientists.
Vincent Lynch, a biologist at the University of Boufalo, who did not participate in the research, said.
Lynch said that scientists have been genetically geometric mice since the 1970s, but new technologies such as CRISBR “make them more efficient and easier.”
Huge scientists have reviewed the DNA databases of mouse genes to identify genes related to hair texture and fat metabolism. “Each of these genetic differences” is already present in some living mice, “he said, but” we all put them in one mouse. “
They chose the two thicks because these mutations are probably associated with cold tolerance – a quality that the Sufi mammoth should have to survive in the northern pole.
Colossal said it focused on mice first to confirm whether the process was working before it turned into the liberation of Asian elephant embryos, and the closest relative of the neighborhoods to the Sufi mammoth.
However, since Asian elephants are a species threatened with extinction, there will be “a lot of operations and red tape” before any plan can move forward.
Independent experts are skeptical of the idea of ”getting rid of”.
“You may be able to change the style of an Asian elephant or adapt it to the cold, but it does not restore the Sufi mammoth. Preston of the University of Montana said:” He changes an Asian elephant. ”
Pahno Telgo, who studies biotechnology at Missouri University and has not participated in the new research, said that improving the liberation of micro genes in animals could have other uses for preservation or animal agriculture.
Telgo said that he admired the technological progress of COLOSSAL, which enabled scientists to identify the genes they target.
Lam said that the same approach may one day help fight diseases in people. So far, the company has operated two health care companies.
“It is part of how our business is liquefied,” Lam said.
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