Newsweek
Scientists looking to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life have made adorable progress—using gene editing to create a “woolly mouse.”
The team at genetics and biotech firm Colossal Biosciences have imbued rodents with thicker, woolly coats, golden fur and other cold-climate adaptations, all of which are key characteristics of the iconic woolly mammoth.
“The Colossal Woolly Mouse marks a watershed moment in our de-extinction mission,” said Colossal Biosciences co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm. More
Unless it has a trunk and tusks, I’m not that impressed.
great. pretty sure I’ve seen how this ends. can they hurry up and produce a saber tooth house cat to deal with the impending wooly mouse epidemic?
Let’s play “god” and hope nothing goes wrong.
Have the boffins at Colossal purchased a suitable habitat for their potential future pet mammoths? No? Then STOP.
Do you want tribbles? Because this is how you get tribbles.
What the hell is wrong with these scientists? You would think that after “scientists” messed around and created COVID that they would do this crap. Now we’ll have mice that can easily survive cold weather and who knows what damager this will cause. That movie “The Gorge” wasn’t supposed to be manual for what to do.
I’ve seen this movie too.
Ben.
You’re not going to believe this but I’m at the drive thru at CVS and the mini van in front of me has their tv playing …Ice Age.
Like Artie Johnson said to the old lady on the park bench: “Wanna see my wooly mamoth?”
Idiots. They have learned nothing, know nothing, and should themselves become extinct.
Newsweek: Scientists looking to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life have made adorable progress.
“adorable progress” – a woolly mouse. How damned stupid.
Why in the world do we need to create Woolly Mammoths?
Mammoth Steaks?
Put Mammoths in the Sahara desert to test if evolution really works? We would expect through natural selection they would evolve to become naked mammoths instead of woolly ones.
Mammoth Tusks – dealers in ivory will get lots of inventory – huge warehouses full of tusks.
CRISPR gene editing tech lets even rank amateurs experiment with this stuff.
Burn the abomination
You know they’ll end up in the Everglades crowding out native species of mice.