CRISPR technology to bring back wooly mammoths by 2028

[Spot & Bubby]

The Ice Age sounds a lot colder than modern climate. How well would a Mammoth do now?

 

[Ky hills]

The Ice Age sounds a lot colder than modern climate. How well would a Mammoth do now?

The slippery slope, could infuse some early shedding genetics from Angus. They could even have cross referenced EPD's for that.

 

[Ebenezer]

What's wrong with a plain ol' elephant?

 

[Moparmaniac07]

What's wrong with a plain ol' elephant?

Not cute and fuzzy enough

 

[Ky hills]

Y'all I think I got it, let's get in in the ground floor of the next big thing.
We'll put mini Highland genes in the mammoths and get mini extra wooly mammoths. And after a while of that well put some mini white park genes in and get the ever popular soon to be highly sought after mini high park mammoth.
We can also work on sustainable mammoth production utilizing standard size animals, with the aforementioned Angus genes, we can have CAM (Certified Angus Mammoth). Everybody knows the black hided mammoths will taste better and have more marbling.
Fred Flintstone would be proud of that.

 

[Dave]

Y'all I think I got it, let's get in in the ground floor of the next big thing.
We'll put mini Highland genes in the mammoths and get mini extra wooly mammoths. And after a while of that well put some mini white park genes in and get the ever popular soon to be highly sought after mini high park mammoth.
We can also work on sustainable mammoth production utilizing standard size animals, with the aforementioned Angus genes, we can have CAM (Certified Angus Mammoth). Everybody knows the black hided mammoths will taste better and have more marbling.
Fred Flintstone would be proud of that.

Speaking of Fred Flintstone. With a little genetic engineering we could bring old Fred back to life. The climate change people would love him with his non-fossil fuel car.

 

[Ky hills]

Speaking of Fred Flintstone. With a little genetic engineering we could bring old Fred back to life. The climate change people would love him with his non-fossil fuel car.

Ol Fred might take a liking to our gasoline cars

 

[Mrcopier]

Those two little dire wolf puppies are snow white. Pretty cute howling like wolves while being held in the guy's hand but I seriously doubt the originals were white. Also, by their skeletal remains the dire wolves had bigger heads and bigger jaws. Nice try not those don't look much different than wolves.

Bring on the hairy elephants. They will do well in zoos. Heck, lets bring back the Neanderthals too. I hear they were pretty popular with the ladies.

NOOOO we have enough crazies running around. We don't need Neanderthals mixing with them

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Too late. From an article in Smithsonian magazine-

"But along with genetic material, archaic humans probably gave us a something else: the sexually transmitted disease HPV16, a human papillomavirus that causes cervical and mouth cancer. Another study in the same issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution tracks the development of this disease and suggests it likely came from Neanderthals. According to a press release, when humans and Neanderthals split into two species, they each developed their own strains of HPV. But when humans entered Europe and Asia and began breeding with archaic humans, the Neanderthal and Denisovan versions of the viruses entered the human population and soon spread.

"The history of humans is also the history of the viruses we carry and we inherit," lead author Ignacio Bravo of the French National Center for Scientific Research says in the press release. "Our work suggests that some aggressive oncogenic viruses were transmitted by sexual contact from archaic to modern humans."

 

[Spot & Bubby]

... we can have CAM (Certified Angus Mammoth).

I think that would be Mammangus.

 

[backhoeboogie]

What's wrong with a plain ol' elephant?

They're wanting highlander elephants.

 

[Stonewall Joe]

Too late. From an article in Smithsonian magazine-

"But along with genetic material, archaic humans probably gave us a something else: the sexually transmitted disease HPV16, a human papillomavirus that causes cervical and mouth cancer. Another study in the same issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution tracks the development of this disease and suggests it likely came from Neanderthals. According to a press release, when humans and Neanderthals split into two species, they each developed their own strains of HPV. But when humans entered Europe and Asia and began breeding with archaic humans, the Neanderthal and Denisovan versions of the viruses entered the human population and soon spread.

"The history of humans is also the history of the viruses we carry and we inherit," lead author Ignacio Bravo of the French National Center for Scientific Research says in the press release. "Our work suggests that some aggressive oncogenic viruses were transmitted by sexual contact from archaic to modern humans."

I'm not a scientist but I don't think a virus can attach itself to DNA

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I have done just fine without an Ivory Bill Woodpecker much less a hairy elephant.
This is a backdoor for some government funding and control.
You see that woodpecker your land just became an environmental reserve.

I'm not an advocate of it, but the 3 "S" rule might be applied in some cases. (Personally, I don't like it, but there might/can be valid reasons.)

Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.

That said, if you end up with an Ivory Billed Woodpecker, and you play your cards right, you might not have to raise cows. Or if you still want to, you can easily go buy some land that does not have your feathered friend (goose that laid the golden egg?) on it.

There is more than one approach to what you often see as a problem, and it might be a solution or golden opportunity.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

I'm not a scientist but I don't think a virus can attach itself to DNA

from Merckmanuals.com: "When HIV enters a human cell, it releases its RNA, and an enzyme called reverse transcriptase makes a DNA copy of the HIV RNA. The resulting HIV DNA is integrated into the infected cell's DNA."

 

[Mark Reynolds]

from Merckmanuals.com: "When HIV enters a human cell, it releases its RNA, and an enzyme called reverse transcriptase makes a DNA copy of the HIV RNA. The resulting HIV DNA is integrated into the infected cell's DNA."

It's been awhile since I've done much reading on viruses, but I've always found this intriguing. Now consider the thought that when the virus reproduces, the virus DNA that is part of the infected cell's DNA creates multiple copies of RNA that goes into new viruses. In the process, it's possible and does happen, part of the infected cell's DNA that is attached to the virus DNA ends up creating some cell RNA that is now attached to the virus RNA that ends up in the virus. The new virus that is produced now has some RNA from the host which then can end up infecting a whole new host. This means that DNA from one animal can be transferred to another animal - naturally. It's miniscule amounts, but this is how weird things happen in nature such as bat DNA being found in monkeys. Gene splicing or GMO is not a unique thing to our scientific processes. It's actually been carried out naturally since......well, viruses came into existence. Another interesting thing to consider is that viruses potentially were the precursors to bacterial life. There is still debate if a virus is living or not.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

It's been awhile since I've done much reading on viruses, but I've always found this intriguing. Now consider the thought that when the virus reproduces, the virus DNA that is part of the infected cell's DNA creates multiple copies of RNA that goes into new viruses. In the process, it's possible and does happen, part of the infected cell's DNA that is attached to the virus DNA ends up creating some cell RNA that is now attached to the virus RNA that ends up in the virus. The new virus that is produced now has some RNA from the host which then can end up infecting a whole new host. This means that DNA from one animal can be transferred to another animal - naturally. It's miniscule amounts, but this is how weird things happen in nature such as bat DNA being found in monkeys. Gene splicing or GMO is not a unique thing to our scientific processes. It's actually been carried out naturally since......well, viruses came into existence. Another interesting thing to consider is that viruses potentially were the precursors to bacterial life. There is still debate if a virus is living or not.