Humans were Raising cats and dogs selectively for thousands of years to make desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles project aims to accelerate this process with genetic engineering to make glowing rabbits in the dark, cats and dogs that suffer from insufficiency, and perhaps, one day, actual alone.
The Los Angeles project is a girls’ Biohaacker Josie Zayner Ideas, which publicly achieved itself with the genetic editing tool Crisper During a conference in San Francisco and commented. “I want to help humans genetically amend themselves.” She said at that time. She also gave herself a Stool and Covid DIY vaccine He is the founder and CEO of Odin, a company that sells home genetic engineering groups.
Now, Zenner wants to create the next generation of pets. “I think, as a human type, it is a kind of our moral privilege to raise the level of animals,” she says.
Zenner says that the Los Angeles project is about making animals that are “more complicated, beautiful and unique”, which was established with the entrepreneur in the field of biotechnology, Cathy Lay, a former fellow in Thil, in making animals “more complicated, beautiful and unique” Who is currently present. The name of the company residing in Austin is an indication of another controversial effort-the Manhattan project, which developed the first atomic bomb during World War II.
Over the past year, the Los Angeles project is working surreptitiously while its five people were trying embryos from frogs, fish, hamster and rabbits. They used Crispr to delete genes and include new genes – and the latter is technically difficult to achieve. They are also testing a less well -known technique known as integration by restriction enzyme, or Remi, to integrate the new DNA into fetuses. Make these adjustments at the fetus level changes the genetic makeup of the resulting animal.
The team used Cressper to add a gene to rabbit embryos so that it produces green fluorescent protein, or GFP. Zenner says they aim to transfer engineering embryos to female rabbits this week. If things go well, the company will be glowing children’s rabbits in one month. (Rabbits have a pregnancy from 31 to 33 days only.)
The first glowing animals will not be created at all. Scientists are commonly used to track and monitor genes or cellular operations within the organism, and often to study diseases. The researchers have previously made fluorescent rodents, monkeys, dogs, cats and rabbits, but none of these animals were created for commercial purposes. But the Los Angeles project designs incandescent rabbits and other animals for sale for consumers. “I think the area of the pet is huge and fully capable,” says Zenner.
