YOu will never see a living Sufi mammoth. While this is a clear fact for most genetic scientists, animal scientists and mammoth experts, endless promises may get them Fulfill an existing version From this very extreme extinct, it seems to be written.
The newest conveyor belt of the resurrection stories came this week in the form of a slightly hairy mouse. Huge biological scienceThe American company behind “Sufi Mouse” and the following the frenzy mediaI published a non -reviewed review paper in which she was designed with a genetic mouse to express a gene related to Mammoth hair, which leads to a slightly longer haircut than usual.
Mice are a crucial part of the story of heredity, not the least of them because of their usefulness in studying human genes, especially disease. But this unusually accompanied mouse has not been created for any noble purpose, but rather is a small vibrant side display of imagination that one day the live mammoth will be born.
“The Sufi mammoth is a vital defender of the Earth,” as it claims on its website, despite the fact that the mammoth has become extinct, and therefore – I feel that this should not really need – has no role in defending the land. The huge informs that the mammoths were a decisive part of managing the ecosystem in tundra in tens of thousands of years since this was true – and that their re -to be a useful tool in the battle against global warming. It is a ridiculous proposal to address the climate crisis – and more, it is scientific foolishness.
How is foolishness? Let’s calculate the roads. A few years ago, the first Mammoth Genome has been sequenced From residues obtained off EBY. You can get some day from less than tiner. The genome sequence allowed scientists to collect some aspects of life and biology of these wonderful monsters, as we already have for many animals – including humans – who have died long ago. This is a good science, which calms us an insight into the modifications that helped the Mammoth to develop to fit their environments. Unfortunately, the old genome allows us to restore them.
DNA of dead creatures is deeply deteriorating, chewing it with time and bacteria, and what we already recover from it is fragments. when Scholars The “complete” genome of our primitive ancestors in 2009 was in fact a few parts and pieces of interesting parts, genes that we can compare useful with live DNA. But genes constitute a small percentage of the total amount of DNA in a living creature, most of which are lost in time, such as tears in the rain. Many of this missing DNA works in living cells and is a specific type. This does not reproduce according to Dolly famousThe actual perfect genome was taken from a living sheep. This is not copies – he is trying to collect a book with a group of sentences only.
COLOSSAL is known and suggests modifying the African elephant genes so that they are more like mammothy genes. The proposed productive creature will be a mixture of elephants and mammoths. These two villas are separated by their ways Evolutionary trees About 6 meters ago. It was at the same time that we separated from what it ended with chimpanzees. This is their difference; This is the equivalent hybrid that is proposed.
Driving your moral cherry on this particular monster and only thinking that we do not know the pregnancy period for mammoths. We do not know how much the size of the newborn will be. We do not know if the mammoth can digest African elephant milk. We will perform artificial insemination and experimental insemination on the elephant, which I think has not given an informed approval for this procedure.
If Colossal managed to overcome all these scientific barriers that cannot be overpowered, it will have an African or an African elephant generating a different type in a social group that does not belong to it in an environment in which it did not develop to be part of it because it stopped its presence thousands of years ago.
It will be completely alone. The best possible result is a single boutique is to mix deeply. Most likely you will die very quickly. Nowadays, Pyrenean Ibex is the only animal Return from extinctionThrough the cells taken from the last organ known in the types of wild goats. The child was born immediately in 2003, and he died immediately, making him the only species that became extinct twice. Mammoth, it should succeed, it will certainly be the second.
Frankly and nauseous claims about the resurrection of mammoths reaches the status of a textbook of misunderstanding and mystery. At a time when scholars are us Under attack From their government, illiteracy on these elephant fantasies is not just confusing but dangerous. The Trump administration’s threats extend to all scientific disciplines, but especially in preservation and climate research. We are witnessing – and attended – the greatest biological diversity and the loss of species in the history of mankind. More than ever, science needs money, public support and government support. The focus on our efforts may be on preserving millions of threatened creatures that are already a priority in these hostile times.
The only way you will see from the time Mammoth is that our friends collide with physicists in the end to travel through time. I am just a genetic world, but what I understand is that this remains a lot in the world of imagination. Perhaps in the meantime, we can direct scientific excitement and our energies towards real problems, and the things that millions of lives depend on, instead of this circus of the mammary imagination and moral bankruptcy.
