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Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by dag100 »

jeroenvlek wrote: post #49

Am I the only one wondering if it's 26 chickens at once from a single artificial egg or they just succeeded 26 times with different eggs? Rationally it probably has to be the latter, but the title confuses me.

You could RTFA and find out.

(26 different artificial eggs. The artificial egg is the main development. Basically they take a chicken embryo (by cracking open a fertilized egg) and allow it to develop inside the artificial egg, and from which it can eventually be "hatched". Other methods for growing chickens from embryos outside their eggs have not had very high success rates.)

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by bot403 »

stavros wrote: post #40
onion2k wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...

I mean, if you can make a velociraptor, the skeleton isn't the bit you'll make money on.

And I feel like lab grown Velociraptor skeletons aren't going to fetch $10 million. Rarity and something new to study is part of the value.

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by stavros »

bot403 wrote: post #53
stavros wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, if you can make a velociraptor, the skeleton isn't the bit you'll make money on.

And I feel like lab grown Velociraptor skeletons aren't going to fetch $10 million. Rarity and something new to study is part of the value.

Yeah. Imagine how much you can make on live velociraptors.

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by FrustratedMonky »

stavros wrote: post #47
FrustratedMonky wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I'm not providing a good literary survey of books with similar tropes and providing some of the positive ones? There are literally half dozen very famous negative examples, but I didn't do good enough search to find a positive one? That would be like every comment on AI should include some example from The Culture Series as an example that all this AI stuff could great.

No man, it's just that saying "this scenario is popular because it makes for a good story therefore it'll happen in reality" is an absurd point to make.

Taking scientific breakthroughs and extrapolating and/or comparing to Science Fiction? Shock, clutch my pearls, who would do such a thing. The absurdity. Surely nobody has done this before.

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by ilamont »

Colossal Biosciences has other ongoing projects including reviving the "Red Wolf" using DNA from coyote/wolf hybrids and CRISPR. They also want to introduce a Wooly Mammoth/elephant hybrid.

The company was founded by George Church, and is able to embark upon these projects thanks to deep-pocketed investors and skirting/bypassing traditional approaches aligned with federal programs and the Endangered Species Act. The following MIT Technology Review article covers the wolf project in detail:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1135222/red-wolv... (paywall)

Re: Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

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Post by ProblemFactory »

onion2k wrote: post #24
fontain wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.

[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...

How about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?
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