When you hear the words "artificial egg", it's easy to picture something straight out of a futuristic movie.But that's pretty much what scientists have managed to build.A biotechnology company called ...

The controversial effort to revive New Zealand’s extinct giant moa is moving from theory to technology, but scientists remain divided over whether de-extinction is possible, ethical or even necessary, ...

Scientists are once-again raising concerns about de-extinction as a US biotech company promotes a "major breakthrough" in artificial egg technology. Colossal Biosciences on Wednesday announced the ...

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Chicks were never supposed to hatch from plastic. Yet inside the Dallas laboratories of Colossal Biosciences, chicken embryos grew in transparent, 3D-printed vessels instead of natural eggshells. They ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences says its artificial womb platform now achieves a 100% development rate in current tests after years of ...

Today’s announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of chicks from an artificial egg would represent a major innovation, if the claims can be ...

De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences hopes incubation system can be scaled up but other scientists are sceptical The flightless moa, an extinct bird of New Zealand, stood more than 3 metres tall, ...

Trevor Snyder pulls open an incubator and gently lifts out a device that looks like a high-tech coffee pod. It's black, with a honeycomb bottom. A clear flat top reveals what's inside. "This is a ...

The scientists behind the synthetic egg say it’s a crucial step to the de-extinction of species like the giant moa and the dodo. Colossal Biosciences announced that it successfully hatched 26 chickens ...