One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
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Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#2Fascinating. I wonder if it'll someday be possible to clone an animal from just their genome, without needing to store physical samples.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#3Fascinating. I wonder if it'll someday be possible to clone an animal from just their genome, without needing to store physical samples.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#4Fascinating. I wonder if it'll someday be possible to clone an animal from just their genome, without needing to store physical samples.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Can't gcc also be compiled (with sufficient effort) using a different C compiler?
Non-metaphorically, I vaguely remember something about using elephants to gestate cloned mammoths.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Can't gcc also be compiled (with sufficient effort) using a different C compiler? Non-metaphorically, I vaguely remember something about using elephants to gestate cloned mammoths.
Which did not work.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Can't gcc also be compiled (with sufficient effort) using a different C compiler? Non-metaphorically, I vaguely remember something about using elephants to gestate cloned mammoths.
At the very least there is mitochondrial DNA. Perhaps there is also some epigenetic things.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#7>It’s been hit twice on the flank with tranquiliser darts
>He kneels next to the elephant and hooks its penis into a device that looks like a huge condom. A conservationist inserts a probe that emits small electrical shocks to stimulate the elephant’s prostate in a process known as electroejaculation.
If a human standard was applied it could be described as drugging and sexually assaulting an elephant!
A noble goal however, the planets biodiversity is in a death spiral.
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#8Fascinating. I wonder if it'll someday be possible to clone an animal from just their genome, without needing to store physical samples.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Why not géstate in some sort of artificial womb?
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#9Fascinating. I wonder if it'll someday be possible to clone an animal from just their genome, without needing to store physical samples.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
The Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on building an entire Linux distro, including GCC, starting at around 512 bytes of machine code, plus all the source code. I think they have had some success already:
https://bootstrappable.org/ https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part... https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/blob/master/live-boots...
Re: One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost certainly not. The genome is not the only information you need. You also need the gestation environment. It’s kind of like trying to compile gcc from source without a working gcc.
Why not géstate in some sort of artificial womb?
>artificial womb?
Because such a thing is non-trivial to invent and does not yet exist.