Image we can rebuild earth and its inhabitants. Build from scratch on plants, animals and even humans. Particularly as it comes to the reshape of humans, I cannot wait to begin.
Today’s genetic screening in our laboratory is nothing compared to things are coming.
It’s an indescribable pleasure to realize that scientists are also able to reverse extinction.
De-extinction of mammoths is now close by and no one knows what happens next.
Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction.
We have to go back to 2003 as scientists managed for just seven minutes to bring back to life the Pyrenean Ibex. It was last known member of a subspecies that had died three years earlier.
Scientists collected DNA from the animal’s ear shortly before her death and injected the genetic material into a domesticated goat egg cell with its nucleus removed.
However the clone did not survive for long and a couple of minutes after birth.
During the two decades that followed science has advanced dramatically.
Technology is no longer a significant boundary to reviving recently extinct species.
There is often sufficient DNA to create functional genomes for cloning.
It’s no longer “can we” but will we resurrect lost species.
Many scientists can’t wait to begin.
Frontrunner, Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotechnology and genetic engineering company, plans to bring back at least three iconic extinct species.
Highest ranking on the wish list are the Dodo, Tasmanian tiger and how can we forget the Woolly Mammoth.
The company defends these de-extinction efforts with the arguments that it’s important to enrich biodiversity, replenish vital ecological roles and bolster ecosystem resilience.
Other scientists warn for catastrophic outcomes. Suppose we clone humans and modify their brains.
So many mad people running around.