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2022-10-22 Science & Technology

CIA Is Attempting to Resurrect The Woolly Mammoth

[Gateway] Besides backing rebel groups and planning coups in foreign nations, the CIA has found enough time to invest its time into resurrecting the woolly mammoth.

According to a report by The Intercept, the CIA is investing in a biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences which is aiming to bring back to life extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth.

Per its site, Colossal Biosciences will use CRISPR gene editing in order to cut and replace the woolly mammoth’s DNA.

Robert Klitzman who currently serves as a bioethicist at Columbia University is very cautious about the project.

Klitzman told The Intercept "You’re going into DNA, which is a 3-billion-molecule-long chain, and clipping some of it out and replacing it. You can clip out bad mutations and put in good genes, but these editing scissors can also take out too much."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-22 09:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 Hopefully they will not discover that the Mammuthus primigenius is only a diversion.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-22 09:14|| 2022-10-22 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Thus was born the Flying Carnivorous Woolley Mammoth.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-10-22 09:26|| 2022-10-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe they're trying to make 8' tall, furry and tusked special agents to work in Siberia.

Laughs aside, whatever they're doing it's probably nothing to do with mammoths. Colossal hunh? Almost everything the CIA does is colossal. Maybe they should rename themselves the Colossal Intelligence Agency.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-22 09:36|| 2022-10-22 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe it’s a speculative investment for a potential future source of funding with no oversite.

Posted by Jefe101 2022-10-22 15:08|| 2022-10-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Come the next ice age, we will be grateful the CIA planned ahead for cold instead of global warming. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-22 15:42|| 2022-10-22 15:42|| Front Page Top

#6 They got a dodo into the White House, so their chances are good.

Posted by Elmoting Flerelet5519 2022-10-22 21:20|| 2022-10-22 21:20|| Front Page Top

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