Scientists who were trying to restore the Sufi Sufi mammoth have created.
Huge biological science Displayed plans in 2021 to revive the Sufi mammoth – Then a Dood bird – attracts both investors, addresses and critics.
The Texas -based biotechnology company has since focused on identifying the main features of extinct animals with the aim of genetically engineering them in live animals, according to CEO Ben Lam.
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Pre -approval: Huge Biological Sciences/AP
In addition to returning the species that have become extinct, the company hopes that its work can be used to help with conservation efforts.
But other scientists have mixed views of their work and whether it will be useful.
On Tuesday, the massive biological sciences said that researchers liberated seven genes in mice embryos to create a long and woolen mouse.
They called the additional “huge Sufi mouse”.
The genetically liberated mouse with a thick and mystical hair in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas. Pre -approval: Huge Biological Sciences/AP
The company is now planning to modify Asian elephants genetically to give them mystical features – but critics have argued that this differs from the restoration of a kind of extinction.
“You really do nothing – 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.
He added: “You may be able to change or adapt an Asian elephant hair style with the cold, but it does not restore the Sufi mammoth. It changes an Asian elephant.”
The results have not yet been published in a magazine or examined by independent scientists.
“The feat” technologically wonderful “.
In addition to the mouse that was given different hair, in a press release, the enormous biological science said that rodents also gained the metabolism of the mystical mammoth fat.
It was said that both of them are linked to cold tolerance.
“These genetic differences were already present in some living mice,” the company’s chief scientist Beth Shapiro said.
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The company said that it first focused on mice to confirm the process that works before moving to Asian elephant embryos – the closest living neighbor of the Sufi mammoth.
However, since Asian elephants are a species threatened with extinction, there will be a lot of red tape before any plans can move forward, according to Mr. Lamm.