just learned scientists are trying to bring back the wooly mammoth to help with climate change and if that isn’t the most coolest and terrifying thing I’ve heard all day

So they didn't become void, they were "born" that way

In FaaF there are different species and kinds of higher beings (still a MASSIVE work in progress tbh, trying to figure out how these cunts work, but for now I'm thinking they're extremely rare species with far greater abilities and lifespans than a normal bug's that have a chance to ascend to true godhood (but even if they don't ascend that doesn't stop mortals from worshipping them as they're already very god-like from a normal bug's perspective)), "pale beings" being one of these kinds/mutations.

Well, there was also a different kind once, "void beings", but they all went extinct a very long time ago by the beginning of the story. Shade Lord was one, and last, of them and it lost its life in a fight with Radiance - the same fight that drove her to make her permanent residence in the dream realm out of her new-found fear of death (which backfired spectacularly ngl). Its body was buried in the Abyss, where it broke apart and decayed, or decayed as much as a non-living thing can, before it was unearthed many ages later by the pale wyrm.

Not much is known about them since they've been gone for so long, and the vessels are the only void beings remaining, but since they're not "pure" void beings it'd be foolish of anyone to assume that the ancient extinct species behaved the same way as these ones do. But they were generally greatly feared thanks to the void's freaky, dangerous properties, which partly lead to their extinction as some of the other higher beings purposefully attacked and killed them whenever they stumbled across one out of fear. Now the only thing remaining of them are the rare void sources, where their former bodies still refuse to fully die.

Shade Lord does get accidentally resurrected in the story bc of all the tomfoolery happening with its body before almost immediately getting killed again by Ghost who inherits its title and reign. Don't ask me how that works, haven't figured that out yet. Magic god shit or something idk LMAO

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

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CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

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CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

CRISPR Startup Looking To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth By 2027

A startup says it’s using gene-editing technology to give elephants the cold-adapted genetic traits of woolly mammoths, like smaller ears and more body fat, creating a hybrid by 2027 that can survive the Arctic tundra. What do you think?

Read more...

Harvard scientists pledge to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction

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Harvard scientists pledge to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction

The woolly mammoth vanished from the earth 4,000 years ago, but now Harvard scientists say they are on the brink of resurrecting the ancient beast in a revised form, through an ambitious feat of genetic engineering. Speaking ahead of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting this week, the scientist leading the “de-extinction” effort said the Harvard team is just two years away from creating a hybrid embryo, in which mammoth traits would be programmed into an Asian elephant.

Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo. Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.

Professor George Church of the Harvard team

“De-extincting” the mammoth has become a realistic prospect because of revolutionary gene editing techniques that allow the precise insertion of DNA from specimens frozen for millennia in Siberian ice. The resulting creature, sometimes referred to as a “mammophant,” would be partly an elephant, but with mammoth genes spliced into the elephant DNA using a "cut and paste" gene-editing tool called CRISPR. So far, team members have stopped at creating individual hybrid cells, but they're now moving towards creating embryos that they plan to grow in an artificial womb — although they said that it would be many years before they would make a serious attempt at producing a living creature. Critics say there are already ethical concerns to consider.

The mammoth was not simply a set of genes, it was a social animal, as is the modern Asian elephant. What will happen when the elephant-mammoth hybrid is born? How will it be greeted by elephants?

Matthew Cobb, professor of zoology at the University of Manchester

Biologists Plan to Bring the Woolly Mammoth Back to Life by 2019

Back From the Dead

 CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed for some pretty significant developments. Researchers have used the technique to cure sickle cell disease, fight famine, and even cut out cancer. Now, the gene editing tool could even bring species back from extinction – and scientists say it could happen for the woolly mammoth within the next two years.

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Prof George Church and his team at Harvard University have been studying the DNA from frozen mammoths found preserved in the Arctic. Specifically, they’ve been looking for genes that separated them from elephants.

Since elephant species are currently on the brink of extinction, the team is attempting to splice mammoth DNA into the genome of an elephant embryo in order to create a mammoth-elephant hybrid. The goal is to eventually grow a mammoth embryo within an artificial womb, as to not compromise the reproductive system of a healthy elephant.

Professor Church stated, “Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant/mammoth embryo. Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.”

Back From the Brink

As awesome as playing Ice Age Jurassic Park sounds, there are also other preventative applications for this technology. According to Dr. Edze Westra of the University of Exeter, “One can also use this technology for engineering the DNA of rapidly declining species or those that are becoming too inbred to increase their chance of survival.”

Prof Church said the mammoth project has two main goals: securing an alternative future for the endangered Asian elephant and helping to combat global warming.  Chruch explains that the animals could, “keep the tundra from thawing by punching through snow and allowing cold air to come in. In the summer they knock down trees and help the grass grow.”

Any of these possibilities are well worth the continued research. Technology is allowing for the impossible to become reality. Just a few years ago, we couldn’t have dreamed of an extinct animal brought back, and now we could be within a few years of actually seeing that.

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Humanity is on the cusp of de-extincting the Wooly Mammoth

After successfully extracting sequenceable DNA from a pair of Woolly Mammoth carcasses pulled from Siberia's permafrost in 2014, a team of Harvard researchers announced on Thursday that they are tantalizing close to cloning the (currently) extinct pachyderms.

The team made the announcement ahead of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting this week. They estimate that they're just two years away from creating a viable hybrid embryo. That is, they take a modern day asian elephant embryo and splice in DNA from the Mammoth to get a fuzzy "mammophant," as the team calls it.

"Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo," Harvard Professor George Church told the Guardian. "Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We're not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years."

So far, the team hasn't progressed passed the cellular stage in creating one of these beasts though they have managed to splice in as many as 45 mammoth genes, up from their initial 15. Within a few years, the team expects to ramp their efforts up to the embryonic stage but it'll likely be quite a while until they can birth a living mammophant.

Since the Asian elephant is itself endangered, this hybridizing technique could help preserve the species. At the same time, the Harvard team doesn't want to put one of these valuable animals at risk carrying a mammophant fetus to term, so they're looking into gestating it in an artificial womb. That's where the delay comes in.

While Church's team has managed to grow a mouse in an artificial womb for ten days -- half its normal gestation period -- the technology for doing that for an elephant-scale animal likely won't be feasible for at least a decade. And even once that technology has matured, there are still a host of hand-wringing ethical arguments that will have to be sorted before Church's team gets the green light to proceed further.

Source: Guardian

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"“Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” said Prof George Church. “Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.” The creature, sometimes referred to as a “mammophant”, would be partly elephant, but with features such as small ears, subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair and cold-adapted blood. The mammoth genes for these traits are spliced into the elephant DNA using the powerful gene-editing tool, Crispr. [..] it would be many years before any serious attempt at producing a living creature. “We’re working on ways to evaluate the impact of all these edits and basically trying to establish embryogenesis in the lab,” said Church. Since starting the project in 2015 the researchers have increased the number of “edits” where mammoth DNA has been spliced into the elephant genome from 15 to 45."

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team could create hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo in two years

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a model of an extinct Ice Age mammoth. Photograph: Andrew Nelmerm/Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley

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The woolly mammoth vanished from the Earth 4,000 years ago, but now scientists say they are on the brink of resurrecting the ancient beast in a revised form, through an ambitious feat of genetic engineering.

Speaking ahead of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston this week, the scientist leading the “de-extinction” effort said the Harvard team is just two years away from creating a hybrid embryo, in which mammoth traits would be programmed into an Asian elephant.

“Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” said Prof George Church. “Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.”

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THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH RISES! SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE RESURRECTION ON THE HORIZON Miss Rosen for Crave Online

Some 4,000 years ago the woolly mammoth went extinct, but now a team of Harvard scientists have announced they are on the drink of bringing the creature back from the dead using DNA from specimens frozen in Siberian ice.

According to The Guardian, the team announced that they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo that would feature mammoth DNA spliced with an Asian elephant. Through the powerful gene-editing tool, Crispr. The new creation, described as a “mammophant,” would have mammoth DNA for selected traits including small ears, subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair, and cold-adapted blood.

Professor George Church explained, “Our aim is to produce a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo. Actually, it would be more like an elephant with a number of mammoth traits. We’re not there yet, but it could happen in a couple of years.”

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Artwork: The early Ice Age, when mammoths roamed the Earth and Man was arising. From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 1, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A. (Carmelite House, London, 1907). Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images.