They are not totally like their ancestors as you will have to mix their dna with animals that are alive today. You can't solely rely on their dna alone. But I share a bit of your concern. Nature is all about coexistence and competition, so by adding another animal into a habitat you would essentially rob those already living there for their resources. I think the solution is to just stop having people everywhere. There are no logical reasons for letting people have lots of babies anymore
Anyone besides me a little concerned about this? I remember as a kid hearing scientists saying soon they'd bring wooly mammoth's back and thought it would be cool (and apparently this company is going to do this soon)
But since then I've watched Jurassic Park quite a few times and then I saw first-hand how GOF research didn't work out too well in Wuhan, and now I'm not so excited about these scientific experiments.
Any scientists on here than can chime in with an informed opinion as to whether this is wise or dangerous?
Before I die, will I be able to get a pet dionosaur?
don't know abt the article you posted from abc but if you do a little digging (ie time) you learn that these are in fact not dire wolves at all but modified grey wolves. may seem like a small distinction, but it's one that matters. nothing has been de-extincted. not yet
The good news is that we are learning how to bring back species! But this is not because I care a ton about woolly mammoths or dire wolves. It is good news because we can use that same technology to bring back all the species that have died out in the previous (and next) 100 years.
p.s. Dinosaurs are also not really possible because we have much less (if any) viable DNA and not "host species" that could be used as a surrogate for a dinosaur. Dire wolves can be raised inside regular wolves. Mammoths can be raised in elephants. Where would you raise the T-rex?
Key is that there would apparently be millions of differences in “base pairs” between the Gray Wolf genome and the Dire Wolf genome, and Colossal has edited just 20 that control superficial differences like color.
I wish I could have genetically edited the "b***h" out of my ex-wife.
The good news is that we are learning how to bring back species! But this is not because I care a ton about woolly mammoths or dire wolves. It is good news because we can use that same technology to bring back all the species that have died out in the previous (and next) 100 years.
p.s. Dinosaurs are also not really possible because we have much less (if any) viable DNA and not "host species" that could be used as a surrogate for a dinosaur.
Birds are maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. Someone could probably bring back other dinosaurs that were closely related to birds.
p.s. Dinosaurs are also not really possible because we have much less (if any) viable DNA and not "host species" that could be used as a surrogate for a dinosaur. Dire wolves can be raised inside regular wolves. Mammoths can be raised in elephants. Where would you raise the T-rex?
There's more than enough dinosaur DNA to bring them back, assuming they are even really extinct, and that various governments don't have an entire secret ecosystems of them.
Anyone besides me a little concerned about this? I remember as a kid hearing scientists saying soon they'd bring wooly mammoth's back and thought it would be cool (and apparently this company is going to do this soon)
But since then I've watched Jurassic Park quite a few times and then I saw first-hand how GOF research didn't work out too well in Wuhan, and now I'm not so excited about these scientific experiments.
Any scientists on here than can chime in with an informed opinion as to whether this is wise or dangerous?
Before I die, will I be able to get a pet dionosaur?
Once again very bad science journalism. All of the articles are misleading and hyperbolic. They are not dire wolves, they are just genetically modified large white grey wolves, meant to look like what some pop science view of what they think dire wolves MIGHT have looked like.
Only thing to be concerned about is here is another example of ubiquitous crappy science journalism and lack of science knowledge in the general public.
Anyone besides me a little concerned about this? I remember as a kid hearing scientists saying soon they'd bring wooly mammoth's back and thought it would be cool (and apparently this company is going to do this soon)
But since then I've watched Jurassic Park quite a few times and then I saw first-hand how GOF research didn't work out too well in Wuhan, and now I'm not so excited about these scientific experiments.
Any scientists on here than can chime in with an informed opinion as to whether this is wise or dangerous?
Before I die, will I be able to get a pet dionosaur?
-What are “wooly mammoth’s”?
-“They are risen”? Is this a Jesus and Easter reference?
-I don’t know what a “pet dionosaur” is?
-so because you watched Jurassic Park and bc the Chinese Government develops their own diseases, you don’t trust science at all anymore? Including with respect to trans athletes?
These seem more like grey wolves that are a little more direwolfy than true dire wolves, but that is probably the best we can hope for. Its really cool, and has implications for the preservation of extant species. We probably won't be able to bring back wooly mammoths, but that would be the holy grail of this field. There is vast mostly empty land in Asia and North America's arctic region for them to roam. Over time, as they died from old age, we'd be able to use their ivory too.
As for a pet dinosaur, you can already get one of those, as avian dinosaurs have survived into the present day. Parrots make good pets and chickens and ducks can be raised on your property relatively easily.
Omg y'all they edited 20 base pair over 14 genes to supposedly recreate an organism who's genome we haven't sequenced (they claim to have done so, but are most likely lying because they would have published).
Even if you take their word at face value, their claim of the genomes being "99.5 percent the same" is still going to be millions of base pair differences.
These seem more like grey wolves that are a little more direwolfy than true dire wolves, but that is probably the best we can hope for. Its really cool, and has implications for the preservation of extant species. We probably won't be able to bring back wooly mammoths, but that would be the holy grail of this field. There is vast mostly empty land in Asia and North America's arctic region for them to roam. Over time, as they died from old age, we'd be able to use their ivory too.
As for a pet dinosaur, you can already get one of those, as avian dinosaurs have survived into the present day. Parrots make good pets and chickens and ducks can be raised on your property relatively easily.
Anyone besides me a little concerned about this? I remember as a kid hearing scientists saying soon they'd bring wooly mammoth's back and thought it would be cool (and apparently this company is going to do this soon)
But since then I've watched Jurassic Park quite a few times and then I saw first-hand how GOF research didn't work out too well in Wuhan, and now I'm not so excited about these scientific experiments.
Any scientists on here than can chime in with an informed opinion as to whether this is wise or dangerous?
Before I die, will I be able to get a pet dionosaur?
Scientist here. We working on resurrecting some neanderthal b!tches too so stay tuned.
Can you start with Bertha? Bertha Butt. One of the Butt Sisters.
Supposedly the mammoths can reverse global warming. We should also release Saber-toothed tigers back into the wild starting in NYC, LA, Moscow, Tokyo, São Paulo, etc. to help rein in the human population.