Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dodo-moa/

18•BaudouinVH•3d ago

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iwontberude•29m ago

Have we already forgotten about chaos theory?

jfengel•19m ago

For a book/movie with a decent (if optimistic) grasp of genetics, its grasp of chaos theory was utterly ignorant.

bookofjoe•26m ago

For a sec there I thought the National Enquirer had gotten a new lease on life.

yewenjie•26m ago

Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?

FrustratedMonky•21m ago

Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food.

Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

vitally3643•13m ago

No. This is a very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest. Do better.

jfengel•20m ago

They're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.

hypfer•18m ago

Yes, yes. Dodos.

The endgame of this is Dodos.

dandellion•7m ago

Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.

fontain•2m ago

Scientific consensus is that dodos cannot open doors so it’ll be very safe as long as visitors stay in their cars.

fragmede•1m ago

I hope they spare no expense!

Avicebron•17m ago

I'm holding out hope can get the moa birds back in my lifetime.

fontain•3m ago

A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.

VladVladikoff•22m ago

This article is so strange. It is written by the company, but written in a way that an outsider would write.

> Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying methodology.

mr_toad•19m ago

Press releases are often written for lazy publications to copy and paste.

x-yl•11m ago

It says at the bottom:

> This story is based on original reporting by Christina Larson for National Geographic. Read the full feature on National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia...

greatgib•8m ago

Also, that is the kind of corporate PR articles that are made to be quasi copy/pasted by journalists.

daniel_iversen•2m ago

I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!

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