De-extinction firm says it has hatched first chicks from artificial eggs
The platform could help rescue fragile bird embryos and support conservation research, while scientists say it still lacks parts of a true egg.
- 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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In the USA, a bird has hatched from an egg produced in the laboratory. A milestone in research. Just – why?
'De-Extinction Company' Announces Method to Hatch Chicks Without Eggs
The technology is part of efforts to "de-extinct" the South Island Giant Moa bird — the tallest-known bird species to walk the Earth that went extinct hundreds of years agoColossal Biosciences hatches chick without biological eggCredit: Colossal BiosciencesNEED TO KNOWColossal Biosciences says it has developed artificial eggs that can hatch chicks without a biological eggshellThe technology is part of efforts to "de-extinct" the South Island Gia…
Writing Science, May 19 (EFE).- Chickens conceived and born without the need for a biological egg. This is what the company Colossal Biosciences has achieved with a new platform of artificial incubation without shell, which allows the complete development of the avian embryo from the early stages to hatching and without using additional oxygen. This artificial egg represents "an entirely new generation of exogenous poultry technologies", that wo…
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