https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth
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Scientists
aiming to bring back woolly mammoth 
create woolly mice 
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These guys are freaking adorable!
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VERY CUTE!!!!!!
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how cute are they gonna be when worldaroundewe shoves a pencil sharpener up their asses?
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Very legal!
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This could cure baldness in humans.
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I was trying to find a gif of a hirsute person but giphy does some sort of semantic tagging bullshit so all I got is gifs of shaggy.
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it all goes to your balls
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This shit always makes me wonder how many 100s of deformed barely-alive freakshows were created before they got their cute non horror movieversion
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Laboratory orange mice already are, they normally get the orange from the lethal yellow gene that is lethal if homozygous. Pet lines normally have viable yellow which makes them orange but prone to severe obesity.
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most of those probably were aborted in uetro
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We now need a combination of
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I made these.
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Finally science creates something cute and not horrible nightmares beyond our comprehension
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Uhh heckin epic science moment??
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So they were trying to create woolly mammoths, and ended up making woolly mice? How do you frick up like that? They're completely different sizes for a start
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The genes for hair growth in mice is the same in elephants so they first triggered it in mice to see if their gene editing would even work.
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I want one
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