Scientists say it was the first time they created seeds.
Dallas-based company Colossal Biosciences says it has used innovative science to successfully use three disastrous wolves that once roamed North America but have been extinct for over 12,500 years.
Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said the team used 13,000-year-old teeth and 72,000-year-old skull DNA to analyze the species’ complete genome and create three healthy, miserable wolf puppies.
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The Colossal website explains that many disastrous wolf fossils were stored in La Brea Tar Pits in the Los Angeles area, but the species’ DNA was not stored in the TAR.
However, using two disastrous samples from international studies on extinct species, Colossal was able to discover more disastrous wolf DNA that had been discovered previously. The company scientists were able to finally analyze the species’ genome, or the entire DNA set.
Cells were then genetically modified from live grey wolves using the gene editing technology CRISPR. Although cloning is usually dependent on tissue samples, Colossal was able to use these modified cells to create embryos, which were then allowed to transfer to a proxy (people, reported by the Associated Press) for growth.
The three litter’s miserable wolf puppies gave birth to two men named Romulus and Remus and a woman named Boyce, after the “Game of Thrones” characters.
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However, critics say that physical and genetic similarities with extinct species do not fall short of a complete revival.
“All you can do now is to show something superficially, like something else,” Vincent Lynch, a University of Buffalo biologist who wasn’t involved in the research, told the Associated Press.
“Whatever the ecological functions that the miserable wolves performed before they were extinct, they cannot perform those functions,” Lynch said.
The company says it is being cared for in a 2,000-acre reserve, “certified by the American Humane Society and registered with the USDA” and in a 2,000-acre reserve surrounded by a 10-foot-high fence and perimeter security.
Colossal was also able to create two liters of cloned red wolves.
The company says its detensive process will help support global conservation efforts. “Conserving, expanding and testing genetic diversity before the loss of important at-risk animal species like the Red Wolves should be successful,” said Harvard geneticist and co-founder of Dr. Corosal’s George Church.
In 2021, Colossal announced plans to abolish wool mammoths. he He said in 2019 “60 minutes.”“We’ll know if we can make this work in mice, and perhaps pigs and elephants, in the next five years. And if we can grow the embryos all the time into term, it’s probably 10 years.”
Last month, the company said scientists simultaneously edited seven genes in mouse embryos to create a mouse with long, thick, wool-like hair. “Giant Wool Mouse.”
Results and images of hairy mice were posted online, but Colossal has not published its study in a peer-reviewed journal and has not been reviewed by independent scientists.
Scientists have compiled mouse genes related to hair and fat metabolism. This is a two-quality wool mammoth that is necessary to survive in Arctic habitat. After confirming the work of the genetic modification process in mice, they planned to test it with the elephant, the closest living relative of wool. However, as Asian elephants are at risk, the company will face many additional hurdles. They also work with the aim of protecting the population of elephants around the world.