Colossal Biosciences successfully hatches chicks from an artificial egg, a breakthrough that could help revive extinct birds like the dodo and giant moa.
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After engineering a system that mimics natural oxygen transfer, scientists successfully hatched 26 healthy chicks without the need for a natural mother or shell.
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Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm
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Because no living bird is large enough to incubate a Moa egg, Colossal is using titanium and silicone technology to build artificial “incubators” for the giant extinct species.
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While the goal is to revive lost species, Colossal believes this “avian reproductive toolkit” can be used to save currently endangered birds with low natural hatching rates.