Pantheraman
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Indian cheetah may growl again thanks to gene engineering - The Times of India
"Like for the dire wolf, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago and was "de-extincted" in US recently, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in the city, in collaboration with the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), is working to resurrect the Indian cheetah, which was last spotted in the early 50s.
Being in the final phase of the whole genome sequencing (WGS) process, BSIP has outlined plans to conduct gene editing of the extinct predator with the aim of reintroducing it into the womb of an African cheetah, using surrogacy to bring it back to life."
You know, after our Interior Secretary's reaction to the scam of Colossal Biosciences, I was really hoping the US would be the only country that would react that way towards it. Oh, naive old me.
And can I just ask what the point of this is? They're already introducing African Cheetahs to replace Asiatic cheetahs and even then, Asiatic Cheetahs, the subspecies once native to India, aren't extinct to begin with.
"Like for the dire wolf, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago and was "de-extincted" in US recently, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in the city, in collaboration with the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), is working to resurrect the Indian cheetah, which was last spotted in the early 50s.
Being in the final phase of the whole genome sequencing (WGS) process, BSIP has outlined plans to conduct gene editing of the extinct predator with the aim of reintroducing it into the womb of an African cheetah, using surrogacy to bring it back to life."
You know, after our Interior Secretary's reaction to the scam of Colossal Biosciences, I was really hoping the US would be the only country that would react that way towards it. Oh, naive old me.
And can I just ask what the point of this is? They're already introducing African Cheetahs to replace Asiatic cheetahs and even then, Asiatic Cheetahs, the subspecies once native to India, aren't extinct to begin with.