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Researchers are making progress on producing cows from just stem cells, with no eggs or sperm involved. Some people are wondering if the same tech might one day work with humans. (www.technologyreview.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] neuropean@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lol, it’s click-bait garbage.

Sure, we’ve sequenced the genome, but they’ve tried somatic cell nuclear transfer only to find out that the cell dies with the mammoth nucleus. Unless it was stored in cryogenic storage beneath lead shielding to protect from ionizing background radiation it’ll never work.

The only hope they have is cloning huge sections of the mammoth genome into the elephant genome, which is a project the size and scale of which will never be performed if we can’t even be fucked to properly care for their only surviving relative the elephants (or even care enough to do anything about global warming for that matter).

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 1 points 6 months ago

It being clickbait garbage was partly my point when I mentioned that there's an article every few years saying how it's just around the corner.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

which is a project the size and scale of which will never be performed if we can’t even be fucked to properly care for their only surviving relative the elephants (or even care enough to do anything about global warming for that matter).

You know, I can't rule out billions of dollars being poured into resurrecting a species with nowhere to go. The human capacity for BS is truly enormous.