Mammoths will be revived in 5-6 years, according to gene-editing company

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It has been more than 10,000 years since the last fur-covered woolly mammoth feet lumbered across the Arctic tundra.

On September 13, entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church announced the creation of Colossal, a new gene-editing company bent on “de-extincting” the woolly using CRISPR.

The company claims that rewilding of this species in the Arctic tundra could revitalize the region's grasslands as a major source of carbon sequestration, which offers a crucial tool in the fight against climate change.

With starting capital of $15 million and four-to-six years of research, Lamm tells Inverse the company could produce a “herd” of woolly mammoths calves for the first time since the Ice Age. This means the first baby mammoths could roam the tundra by 2027 or earlier.

Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist working as a fellow at the Natural History Museum in London tells Inverse that this project could easily blow past some crucial ethical barriers if Colossal isn't careful.

While the company’s use of CRISPR — a gene-editing tool that can snip and replace particular genes in an animal's DNA — is relatively novel, Herridge says that scientists accomplished small-level “de-extinction” years ago through cloning a recently extinct Pyrenean ibex.

“De-extinction of the woolly mammoth will be the first time a species has been successfully brought back from extinction,” Lamm says. “Colossal is ready to chart this new frontier of science and biotechnology.”

Source: https://www.inverse.com/innovation/what-you-need-to-know-about-mammoth-de-extinction?

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[SHALLOW 16,469]

Very exciting, but where are the dinosaurs?

[sarahb 17,187]

14 minutes ago, SHALLOW said:

Very exciting, but where are the dinosaurs?

We call them birds nowadays 

[Guest]

Can somebody revive me first? Like please 😵‍💫

[Bonkers 30,860]

I thought this already happened.  I swear I talked to one on Grindr on the weekend. 

[heygurlhi 3,200]

lets not

[Speak Easy 324]

Excuse me but Flint still has no clean water.

[LilMonst3r 5,681]

I am shook and fascinated at how the future is gonna look when I’m 70. If the woolly mammoths 🦣  come back what else is gonna come back? Imagine they bring the dodo bird back?

[holy scheisse 22,903]

2 minutes ago, Speak Easy said:

Excuse me but Flint still has no clean water.

 next time my boss asks me to do some task I don't wanna do im gonna say this to him 

 

 

Anyway this is very cool and hopeful for restoring ecosystems where humans drive species to extinction 

[Illuminati 15,965]

Just in time to experience human created scorching hell that's approaching us

[Sherry 4,715]

We lost Northern White Rhinos recently. How bout taking care of species that already exist right now. The idea is cool but unnecessary. protect what we have right now.

[Future Lovers 7,537]

I mean the idea’s cool and all but I don’t know what they expect to happen. Either they’ll be put in a zoo and die because nobody knows how to take care of an animal that’s been extinct for centuries or they’ll try and throw them out into the wild in ecosystems not equipped to handle the introduction of something that massive and they’ll die of starvation or other environmental factors. Neither are particularly inviting prospects. 

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20 minutes ago, myluis617 said:

I am shook and fascinated at how the future is gonna look when I’m 70. If the woolly mammoths 🦣  come back what else is gonna come back? Imagine they bring the dodo bird back?

 

18 minutes ago, holy scheisse said:

 next time my boss asks me to do some task I don't wanna do im gonna say this to him 

 

 

Anyway this is very cool and hopeful for restoring ecosystems where humans drive species to extinction 

If u read full article its not REALLY bringing back extinct mamoths, they are gone forever... it would instead be an approximation of a mamoth

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

22 minutes ago, myluis617 said:

I am shook and fascinated at how the future is gonna look when I’m 70. If the woolly mammoths 🦣  come back what else is gonna come back? Imagine they bring the dodo bird back?

Let’s bring back the Megalodon 👏  (all we have is their teeth though )