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EXCERPTS: About 4,000 years ago, the species went extinct. [...] Professor George Church from the Harvard Medical School has been researching for the past 10 years how to bring ancient species back to life by extracting their genes and placing them into their evolved species...
[...] Due to its biological nature, the woolly mammoth was only able to survive in very cold temperatures. A very similar case of how the modern elephant is mainly able to survive in tropical habitats that are warm. What Professor Church is trying to achieve is not only to bring this species back to life but create a hybrid species between elephants and woolly mammoths that would be able to adapt to any climate. The goal is for this new species to restore the arctic by enhancing the ecosystem.
The genes have been taken from various preserved bodies, but the best is considered to be Lyuba, a baby mammoth that had been found frozen in the Artic of Siberia in 2007. Experts consider Lyuba to be the best-preserved mammoth discovered to date. From radiocarbon dating, its age is around 42,000 years and just like many others of its kind, it most probably died because of the incompatible habitat.
[...] What the ecosystem needs right now is biodiversity in order to mitigate the change within our climate. Some critics have asked the experts why don’t they focus on saving endangered species, but by doing this they actually are. Most people don’t know, but our present elephants have become an endangered species due to the current climate change. By creating this hybrid species, we are assuring that elephants won’t disappear as with the new gene implemented from woolly mammoths they will be able to live in any habitat.
[...] You may ask, how does this whole process actually work? Well, it is not as complicated as experts make it sound. Gene Editing is taking nuclei from one species and replacing and replacing them with nuclei from another species which will alter certain biological abilities.
[...] It is speculated that in the next six years we will be able to see the first babies of this new hybrid species which will be vital towards repopulating elephants around the world and enhancing the biodiversity around the world. Especially around Siberia, where the woolly mammoth is said to have been first sighted in ancient times, around 400,000 years ago... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: About 4,000 years ago, the species went extinct. [...] Professor George Church from the Harvard Medical School has been researching for the past 10 years how to bring ancient species back to life by extracting their genes and placing them into their evolved species...
[...] Due to its biological nature, the woolly mammoth was only able to survive in very cold temperatures. A very similar case of how the modern elephant is mainly able to survive in tropical habitats that are warm. What Professor Church is trying to achieve is not only to bring this species back to life but create a hybrid species between elephants and woolly mammoths that would be able to adapt to any climate. The goal is for this new species to restore the arctic by enhancing the ecosystem.
The genes have been taken from various preserved bodies, but the best is considered to be Lyuba, a baby mammoth that had been found frozen in the Artic of Siberia in 2007. Experts consider Lyuba to be the best-preserved mammoth discovered to date. From radiocarbon dating, its age is around 42,000 years and just like many others of its kind, it most probably died because of the incompatible habitat.
[...] What the ecosystem needs right now is biodiversity in order to mitigate the change within our climate. Some critics have asked the experts why don’t they focus on saving endangered species, but by doing this they actually are. Most people don’t know, but our present elephants have become an endangered species due to the current climate change. By creating this hybrid species, we are assuring that elephants won’t disappear as with the new gene implemented from woolly mammoths they will be able to live in any habitat.
[...] You may ask, how does this whole process actually work? Well, it is not as complicated as experts make it sound. Gene Editing is taking nuclei from one species and replacing and replacing them with nuclei from another species which will alter certain biological abilities.
[...] It is speculated that in the next six years we will be able to see the first babies of this new hybrid species which will be vital towards repopulating elephants around the world and enhancing the biodiversity around the world. Especially around Siberia, where the woolly mammoth is said to have been first sighted in ancient times, around 400,000 years ago... (MORE - missing details)