{"id":2148,"date":"2025-02-25T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/chickens-can-help-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:08:28","slug":"chickens-can-help-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/chickens-can-help-bring-the-dodo-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens can help bring the dodo back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-25 11:08:27<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Chickens could be used to revive the dodo.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at New York University Langone have devised a technique that involves creating genetically modified birds by taking cells from farmyard chickens &#8211; specifically ones that will grow into sperm or egg cells.<BR><br \/>\nLarge sections of DNA from another species, the wild red junglefowl, are then inserted to replace the existing DNA of the chicken.<BR><br \/>\nThe &#8216;edited&#8217; reproductive cells are placed into the embryos as they develop into an egg &#8211; with the result being &#8220;some sort of wild-looking chicken&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Anna Berenson, a boffin at the university, said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston: &#8220;This will hopefully open up avenues for restoring at-risk bird populations by improving their genetic resistance to certain environmental challenges, and maybe even for reviving lost bird species.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe expert hopes to bring the dodo &#8211; which was hunted to extinction in the 17th century &#8211; back to life in the future.<BR><br \/>\nShe added: &#8220;I&#8217;d love to do the dodo.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-25 11:08:27 Chickens could be used to revive the dodo. Experts at New York University Langone have devised a technique that involves creating genetically modified birds by taking cells from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}