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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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 created a reusable titanium egg lined with a bioengineered membrane that mimics the oxygen transfer of a natural shell. Using the devices, scientists successfully hatched 26 healthy chickens while closely monitoring develo…
The US company Colossal Biosciences announced a new incubation technology that, it says, could bring it closer to one of its most ambitious objectives: to recreate the giant moa of New Zealand, an extinct bird about 600 years ago. The device consists of a 3D printed structure that replaces the shell of an egg and allows to observe the development of the embryo in real time. The announcement came accompanied by a promotional video and a press rel…
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