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Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
- paul_ny 6mo agoSo, this means the egg came first, right?
- unfitted2545 6mo agoEggs are IaC.
- iwontberude 6mo agoHave we already forgotten about chaos theory?
- jfengel 6mo agoFor a book/movie with a decent (if optimistic) grasp of genetics, its grasp of chaos theory was utterly ignorant.
- MarkusQ 6mo agoFrom this I can deduce that your grasp of chaos theory is better than your grasp of genetics. People who know about genetics thought the genetics sucked. People who know about computers thought the depiction of computers was awful. Don't ask get anyone who knows about nutrition started on acting as if there are no sources of lysine found in nature. And economists... It is, literally, a movie with something for everyone.
- bookofjoe 6mo agoFor a sec there I thought the National Enquirer had gotten a new lease on life.
- yewenjie 6mo agoIs this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
- FrustratedMonky 6mo agoMaybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food. Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.
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- fragmede 6mo agoTo be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.
- himata4113 6mo agoThat's very likely to be the future of the human race where governments produce, train and push out artificial humans like a factory. Well if we don't solve aging and robotics by then, then we'll probably just stop having babies altogether or at least not in a quantity that matters.
- oneshtein 6mo agoArtificial womb developed decade ago (2016): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb
- autoexec 6mo agoIt could end the abortion issue if fertilized eggs could be moved early enough. Any woman who didn't want a baby could have it transferred to an artificial womb and sign away all rights to/responsibility for it. Any father who wanted their child when the mother didn't could keep it. It could help premature infants too.
- VladVladikoff 6mo agoThis article is so strange. It is written by the company, but written in a way that an outsider would write. > Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying methodology.
- mr_toad 6mo agoPress releases are often written for lazy publications to copy and paste.
- x-yl 6mo agoIt says at the bottom: > This story is based on original reporting by Christina Larson for National Geographic. Read the full feature on National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificial-egg-colossal-chickens-moa-dodo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia...
- dang 6mo agoOk, we've switched the URL to that link from https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dodo-moa/ https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dod... above. Thanks!
- greatgib 6mo agoAlso, that is the kind of corporate PR articles that are made to be quasi copy/pasted by journalists.
- daniel_iversen 6mo agoI've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!
- mplanchard 6mo agoNo spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness. Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.
- kombine 6mo agoI haven't read Brave New World but "We" by Evgeny Zamyatin left a similar impression on me, it's more subtle than 1984. It came out earlier than both books by the Western authors - even though Zamyatin was inspired while working in England in early 20th century.
- EMIRELADERO 6mo agoFunnily enough, Orwell actually reviewed We in 1946: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamyatin/english/e_zamy https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamyatin/english/e_zamy
- sonofhans 6mo agoThank you, that was new to me. I always felt a connection between those three books — We, Brave New World, 1984 — but this review really is the missing piece. He opens the review by describing the similarities between We and Brave New World, closes the review contrasting them politically. I can almost hear the wheels turning in his head, it feels like this review is an early treatment for 1984.
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- lekevicius 6mo agoI always knew that egg came first.
- andy99 6mo agorequires real hen for fertilization and laying
- paul_ny 6mo agoHuh… from the original Nat Geo article: scientists inspect eggs newly laid by real hens within 24 to 48 hours. They select the most promising ones, crack them open, and delicately pour the contents—everything but the shell—into the artificial egg structure. But everything that happened before then, from fertilization to egg laying, required a real chicken.
- deadbabe 6mo agoHow will they resurrect a dodo? Is the idea that they have some DNA somewhere?
- goda90 6mo agoThe Wikipedia article suggests they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
- downrightmike 6mo agoWE have one leg from one individual, and so egg fragments, should be doable, but not enough diversity
- guerrilla 6mo agoThe future is getting creepier by the day. You know this'll be used in food farming.
- maxerickson 6mo agoWhy? The current method is cheap.
- sghiassy 6mo agoHopefully it changes. Male baby chicks are thrown into grinders. It’s horrendous
- zamadatix 6mo agoAt least animals getting ground up live is a horror as old as time. We seem to always be moving in the other direction and creating more new horrors instead of making things better.
- dullcrisp 6mo agoI agree we should focus more on reviving ancient horrors.
- yehosef 6mo agolike draw and quarter?
- mrec 6mo agoAgreed. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn: there's a reason it's a classic.
- zamadatix 6mo agoThe complete omittance of even acknowledging we have invented modern animal horrors far worse to work on first makes it sound like we just need to do better than other animals. Willfully ignoring that to act like doing so is a form of agreement between the statements is a bit gruesome itself. I'm glad you want to handle some of the problem, but let's not act like we just need to do better than other animals is all to discuss. It's easy enough to agree with the full problem unless you're fine with the other parts.
- bushwart 6mo agolife finds a way
- eutropia 6mo agoColossal Biosciences and its goal of resurrecting extinct bird species "bird species"? C'mon. They want to do a Jurassic Park.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6mo agoBaby steps:)
- cbdevidal 6mo agoYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could…
- jeroenvlek 6mo agoAm I the only one wondering if it's 26 chickens at once from a single artificial egg or they just succeeded 26 times with different eggs? Rationally it probably has to be the latter, but the title confuses me.
- dag100 6mo agoYou could RTFA and find out. (26 different artificial eggs. The artificial egg is the main development. Basically they take a chicken embryo (by cracking open a fertilized egg) and allow it to develop inside the artificial egg, and from which it can eventually be "hatched". Other methods for growing chickens from embryos outside their eggs have not had very high success rates.)
- jeroenvlek 6mo agoYeah..., or you could read the rest of the comment section and learn that I have RTFA, but that TFA was changed with one that explains it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257929 This was what I read: https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dodo-moa/ https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dod...
- ilamont 6mo agoColossal Biosciences has other ongoing projects including reviving the "Red Wolf" using DNA from coyote/wolf hybrids and CRISPR. They also want to introduce a Wooly Mammoth/elephant hybrid. The company was founded by George Church, and is able to embark upon these projects thanks to deep-pocketed investors and skirting/bypassing traditional approaches aligned with federal programs and the Endangered Species Act. The following MIT Technology Review article covers the wolf project in detail: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1135222/red-wolves-colossal-biosciences-clones/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1135222/red-wolv... (paywall)
- thunderbong 6mo agohttps://archive.is/FwKsk https://archive.is/FwKsk
- dweinus 6mo ago> says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the research. “We could better help millions of birds every year by solving the more immediate threats of disappearing habitats, collisions with building windows, and prowling outdoor cats,” Yes. Even if they stuck it at the end, it shows good journalism to call this out.
- type0 6mo agoSo the question of what came first is answered then?
- genxy 6mo agoThis was a highschool science project from years ago. JAPANESE STUDENTS HATCH A HEN'S EGG WITHOUT A SHELL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJDTYUw0sk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJDTYUw0sk
- genxy 6mo agoHigher quality video that shows how to replicate the process (along with a nice timelapse of the chick developing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0uKvUbcfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0uKvUbcfw A Novel Shell-less Culture System for Chick Embryos Using a Plastic Film as Culture Vessels https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/51/3/51_0130043/_article https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/51/3/51_0130043/_a... An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112 Assessment of extremely premature lambs supported by the Extrauterine Environment for Neonatal Development (EXTEND) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11772227/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11772227/ 4H is gonna be wild in 5 years.
- r-johnv 6mo agoSlightly misleading title: It's an Artificial Eggshell/Membrane. They took regular eggs, broke the shell/membrane and emptied the contents into a silicone based eggshell/membrane for incubation. Still good science, but greatly tempered implications. Allegedly a group of Japanese school students did this previously using cellophane wrap.