#I spent last week arguing with people on fb about animal use in science

[kedreeva]

just saw the news about the woolly mice made to study genetics in mammoths and thought of u

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5299962/woolly-mammoth-extinction-mice-genetic-engineering

They have created!!!! angora mice (repeat)

Actually it is very cool they can play with genes like dolls, that's neat that they were able to turn on the cold-faring genes like that! I don't necessarily want to see them bring back woolly mammoths, but it would be nice to have the tech to save nearly or recently extinct animals who may be suffering genetic bottlenecks, or to study which genes do which things in practice. I believe they were working on the whole "save endangered species with genetics and embryo implantation" with black footed ferrets, using DNA from deceased individuals to make new babies! Science is great.

Anyway for those curious here are the woolly beasts