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fromFast Company
23 hours ago

The Texas startup that's bringing back the Wooly Mammoth has a new project: growing chickens in artificial eggs

A 3D-printed artificial egg system enables embryo development in standard incubators without oxygen-flow interventions, supporting healthy chicken hatching and enabling de-extinction or endangered-bird breeding.
fromwww.npr.org
23 hours ago

To revive an extinct bird, you first need an artificial egg

“This is a chicken embryo,” says Snyder, a bioengineer at Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, as he gently places the device cradling the chicken embryo into a stand that makes it glow. “You can see the little chicken embryos moving around in there,” Snyder says. “You can see it has eyes. It has a heartbeat. It has a beak. It has feathers. It has an eyelid. You can see the wings are developing. Legs. It even is beginning to get little claws on its feet.”
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