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Darya Tourzani, a reproductive organic scientist who worked on the project, told the Telegraph The turning point was “science fiction to its best”.
Colossal describes the de-astinction as the “process of generation of an organism that resembles is and is genetically similar to an extinct species”.
Jon Snow meets with his terrible wolf, Ghost, in the Game of Thrones ending. Credit: HBO
Independent scientists said that the latter effort did not mean that terrible wolves will soon return to the North American meadows.
“Everything you can do now is to do something superficially similar to something else” – does not completely revive the extinct species, said Vincent Lynch, a biologist from the University of Buffalo who was not involved in research.
Colossal has previously announced similar projects to genetically alter the cells with living species to create animals that recall extinct woolly mammoths, Dodos and others.
Although puppies can physically resemble young terrible wolves, “what they probably never learn is the final move of how to kill a giant allo or a big deer”, because they will not have the opportunity to look at and learn from the parents of wild wolf, said the main expert in animal treatment of Colossal Matt James.
Saying Wolf was an American canic that had previously been extinct for over 12,500 years. Born in January 2024, colossals were successfully born three wolves using some DNAs from extinct animals.
The company also reported having cloned four red wolves using the blood taken from wild wolves of the population of red wolf in danger of extinction of the south-eastern United States. The goal is to bring more genetic diversity to the small population of red wolves in captivity, which scientists are using to breed and help save the species.
From left, Dr. Beth Shapiro of Colossal, George Church and Ben Lamm.
This technology can have a wider application for the conservation of other species because it is less invasive than other techniques to clone animals, said Christopher Preston, a wildlife expert at the University of Montana that was not involved in research. But it still requires a wild wolf to be sedated for a tie and it is not a simple enterprise, he added.
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The CEO of the Company, Ben Lamm, said that the team met officials from the United States Department of Interior at the end of March for the project. The interior secretary Doug Burgum praised the work on X as a “new exciting era of scientific wonder”, even if external scientists said that there were limits to restoring the past.
“Whatever the ecological function and saying Wolf has performed before it is extinguished, it cannot perform those functions” on today’s existing landscapes, said Lynch.
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