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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hank Green has a good video on the subject. This is like crafting in jeans to chimpanzees to make them stand upright and be hairless, and calling them human. There’s some cool technology going on here, but it isn’t anywhere near a full clone.

  youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    BREAKING NEWS! AUSTRALOPITHECUS HAS JUST BEEN DE-EXTINCTED!

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    • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stephen Baxter catching strays…i

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for the link, that’s an interesting material. However, I had to re-read that sentence three times trying to make sense of clothing items in genetics.

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They needed a grabby headline for their sponsors to get excited about. “Multiplex CRISPR gene editing on Grey Wolf” doesn’t scream SciFi enough.

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what’s the genetic difference? If the copy was good enough, surely they would be dire wolves? Also, what is the motivation to bring back dire wolves?

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bringing back species that disappeared because of humans and restoring ecosystems are possible ones.

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    • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that disappeared because of humans and restoring ecosystems are possible ones

      Yeah, 10,000 years ago. Is it really restoring when the ecosystem has been functioning for such a long period without it? Wouldn’t it sooner disrupt it?

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re still largely grey wolves DNA, with a few aesthetic genes of direwolf grafted in.

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• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why be disappointed? This wolf died off for a reason. If you brought it back it would likely die off again. Beyond that if you don’t bring back a pack of them then they will be very lonely as they are pack animals.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big puppy

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably because of constant media lies.

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• jenni007@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyway… this is useless science for humanity. Let’s focus on saving the species that are still alive.

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    b-b-but pidgeon

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you’re American I don’t think you really want passenger pigeons

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’ll have more accurate clones of more recently extinct species. DNA just doesn’t last that long.

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• sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haha the reaction guy does need a Winterfell style fur cloak around his shoulders though.

  But like, of LARP quality though.

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• systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I said as much “How much of that DNA is just wolf? No way that thing is authentic.”

  And then both the people smiling look disappointed. Let me tell ya, I really know how to set a mood.

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ffs now how am I supposed to sleep tonight?

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• SnowChickenFlake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, it’s nonetheless a step forward, and we should cherish it! 😁

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