De-extinction firm says it has hatched first chicks from artificial eggs
The company said the membrane lets embryos develop in room air and could help conservationists rescue endangered birds.
- Texas-Based biotechnology firm Colossal Biosciences announced the successful hatching of 26 healthy chicks using a 3D-printed, silicone-based artificial eggshell system.
- The breakthrough utilizes a specialized, semi-permeable membrane that successfully replicates natural gas exchange and moisture retention without requiring dangerous amounts of supplemental oxygen.
- Company executives stated that the scalable system is a critical engineering milestone designed to eventually bypass the biological surrogacy limits of birthing massive extinct avian species like the dodo or the 12-foot-tall giant moa.
- Outside evolutionary biologists tempered the achievement by noting that while the protective shell technology is an impressive bioengineering feat, it relies on real fertilized embryos poured into the system rather than being a entirely synthetic egg.
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De‑extinction company says it’s made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species
The announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of chicks from an artificial egg would represent a major innovation, if the claims can be verified. The company says its artificial egg supports the full development of bird embryos outside a biological eggshell, without the requirement for supplemental oxygen. The work is […] The post De‑extinction company says it’s made an artificial egg – if…
Is it possible to return to life birds that no longer exist? That is what a de-extinction company from Texas is doing. They achieved the hatching of some chicks from an artificial egg. They have discovered the way to develop a bird embryo that does not have to be in its biological shell and without the need for oxygen in an additional way. Their goal is to return to birds as famous as dodo and moa. So this scientific advance would be incredible …
Texas company hatches live chicks from artificial eggs in breakthrough that could revive the dodo: report
A Texas-based company has successfully hatched live chicks from artificial eggs for the first time, a breakthrough researchers believe could eventually help revive extinct birds like the dodo and giant moa.
Colossal Biosciences engineers synthetic eggs
Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday it developed a device that acts as a synthetic egg, which successfully hatched two dozen chicks. The company took fertilized eggs from their avian farm and transferred them to a lab, where they matured in synthetic eggs kept in a controlled incubator. After the chicks hatched, they were moved back to the farm.The process has yet to be peer reviewed, but the company is pitching the technology as a step towar…
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