The teams research describing the accomplishment will behosted on the preprint server bioRxiv.
Or rather, an animal that looks like a woolly mammoth.
In the past, a multitude of attempts to generate elephant iPSCs have not been fruitful.
An artist’s impression of induced pluripotent stem cells.Illustration: Alpha Tauri 3D Graphics (Shutterstock)
Other companiesnamelyRevive & Restorehave similar aims with other species, including the heath hen and passenger pigeon.
A proxy species isnt truly the old creature brought back to life.
phenotypically, behaviourally, ecologically) another entity the extinct form.
An artist’s impression of a woolly mammoth.Illustration: Dotted Yeti (Shutterstock)
The group added that Proxy is preferred to facsimile, which implies creation of an exact copy.
Its not just a question of having biological material from an extinct animal.
(That researcher is now a member of Colossals advisory board.)
But other technological breakthroughs will be necessary to make any of that possible.
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Turns out, they were the remains of three mammoths from the Stone Age.
