A group aiming to revive ancient creatures launched a project to revive the extinct giant bird `` Dodo ''
Scientists Launch Project to 'De-Extinct' the Dodo, Reintroduce to Natural Habitat
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnm75/scientists-launch-project-to-de-extinct-the-dodo-reintroduce-to-natural-habitat
'De-Extinction' Company Colossal Aims to Bring Back the Dodo
https://gizmodo.com/colossal-bring-back-the-dodo-de-extinction-1850050539
Colossal Biosciences, founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Ben Lam and Harvard University geneticist George Church, has discovered the flightless bird `` dodo '' that has rapidly become extinct on the island of Mauritius, where it originated, due to human interference. announced plans to revive it. The dodo is one of the organisms whose genome has been completed, along with mammoths and thylacines.
Colossal Biosciences is planning to edit the DNA of existing ancient organisms using technology that applies CRISPR of gene editing technology and to give birth to ancient organisms again by having closely related species give birth. . We have already launched a plan to revive mammoths and owl wolves, and have succeeded in obtaining cooperation from the University of Melbourne and raising $ 15 million (about 1.95 billion yen) from investors. .
In reviving the dodo, Colossal Biosciences enlisted the help of Beth Shapiro , an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and also raised a new $150 million (about 19.5 billion yen) funding. He said he succeeded.
Mr. Shapiro said when participating in the plan, 'I am always fascinated by the dodo because it embodies the sad fact that humans drive species to extinction.By thinking about extinction and the dodo together , one of the reasons I'm looking at this project is that it might make people a little more interested in what's going on.'
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