Mar 07, 2024 11:40:00A biotechnology company aiming to revive the mammoth succeeds in creating iPS cells from Asian elephants, bringing the mammoth revival one step closerby(Colossal), an American biotechnology company, aims to bring back extinct animals such as. It is possible to.On March 6, 2024 local time, Colossal announced that it had finally succeeded in creating Asian elephant iPS cells. Until now, iPS cells of various animals such as the endangered northern, andhave been created, but many attempts to create elephant iPS cells have ended in failure. 'One of the things we had to overcome with elephant cells is that the TP53 pathway is widespread in elephant cells,' commented Haisori. Therefore, Dr. Haisori's research team succeeded in creating Asian elephant iPS cells by creating a molecule that inhibits the production of TP53 protein.The research team has already succeeded in growing Asian elephant iPS cells into embryo-like cell clusters.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2024 02:54 UTC