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biotechnology It is a science that is developing by leaps and bounds and is of great interest to the public and investors due to one of its goals: to return extinct animals.
In this effort, Colossal biological sciences is one of the pioneers in this research. He has already declared his interest in this with mammoth woolly, and now points to another species: dodo.
Palan for the return of extinct animals
The startup is holding various investment rounds for amounts exceeding $225 million.
For the company, the technology they will be using is not only a demonstration, but will have an impact in a host of medical applications, from gene editing to improving fertility techniques.
Dodo It was a flightless bird that was about twice the size of a turkey and lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, about 885 kilometers east of Madagascar.
The last known bird was killed in the late 1600s, after people arrived on the island and hunted the bird for food, took over its habitat and introduced pigs and monkeys to eat its eggs.
Beth Shapiro, the company’s lead paleogenetician and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been trying to extract genetic material from a dead bird for most of her career. He scraped the insides of the skulls from Dodo and on the sugar plantations of Mauritius. He finally got lucky with a well-preserved specimen in a Danish museum, and now Colossal says he has the only DNA from Dodo famous high quality complete.
three to the list
Dodo it is the third missing animal on Colossal’s extinction challenge list. In March, the startup said it would return mammoth woolly, and in August he promised to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, which was declared extinct in the 1930s.
Company insiders regularly mention the space race when discussing the company’s prospects as an example of a seemingly impossible goal that has not only been achieved over time, but also spawned related inventions that we still use today.
“The good thing about these extinct species is that they are systemic issues,” says co-founder Ben Lamm. Bloomberg. Solving a systemic problem requires innovation in many areas and therefore creates breakthroughs that can lead to more side effects. “It’s like landing on the moon. It was a systemic problem.”
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