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In other words, whether Christians or not, people have basically heard the story of "Noah's Ark":
Noah built a huge ship called "Noah's Ark" at God's behest to save his family and all the animals on the earth from a flood caused by God's punishment.
The animals on the "Ark" have a male and a female, so that after the flood recedes, they can return to the land to continue to reproduce and continue to live.
Now, on a farm in Shropshire, England, 53-year-old Tullis Matson is also completing a great plan similar to "Noah's Ark":
Collect a total of 50 million DNA samples from all endangered animals in the world, and reserve species tinder for endangered animals.
In case the animal goes extinct, the stockpiled DNA samples can be used to clone them and recreate them, or even restore their population size...
Although many animals are not yet at the critical point of extinction, Matson is already in a race against time.
He has been concerned that many endangered animals are going extinct too quickly to board his "Noah's Ark."
In terms of preserving plant species, Norway's "Doomsday Seed Bank" has prepared for plant extinction.
The species preservation of animals seems to fall on Matson...
The story of this "contemporary Noah", let's start from the beginning...
Years ago, Matson was a cynical teenager who began skipping school at the age of 16, devoting all his enthusiasm to horse racing and riding.
Because the family ran the horse racing farm, Matson had to seriously study biology and veterinary medicine in order to inherit the family business, in order to cultivate better horse racing and make higher profits for the family business.
After years of experience in the artificial breeding of horse racing, he founded his own horse breeding company, where he developed a pet cloning business for some shovelers who miss pets, cloning their dead cats, dogs and horses.
However, going to the United States for a conference in 2018, a casual conversation, made Matson completely change his life.
At a conference about animal breeding, Matson met a biotechnology company CEO and chatted, and the two talked about animal cloning technology.
Matson proudly showed off to the other party how many cats and dogs he had successfully cloned and how many broken hearts of shovelers he had saved.
Unexpectedly, the boss did not think so after listening to it, and he shook his backhand:
"You have such good technology, it is only used on cats, dogs and horses all day long, why don't you clone some rare animals?"
This sentence was like an empowerment, giving Matson a heavy blow to his heart, and at that moment he suddenly realized:
After so many years of research on biotechnology, why not use it to do something more meaningful?
After carefully studying and thinking about this problem, he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem:
Even if we consider cloning to save these endangered animals today, it will be too late...
In fact, as early as 2003, scientists tried to use cloning technology to bring the extinct Alpine sheep (Pyrenean ibex) back to earth.
After implanting the DNA of an Alpine sheep into the oocytes of 208 goats, the scientists replaced the original genetic tissue of the goats, and then the cloned Alpine sheep were born by other sheep.
Tragically, only one child was born, and the clone of the Alpine sheep survived only 7 minutes before being declared dead.
Since then, although scientists have tried to clone extinct animals, most of them have failed.
In 2009, the United Nations published a heart-wrenching report predicting that 1 million species of animals would disappear from the planet in the coming decades.
This long list contains many animals that we are familiar with and can still see, black rhinos, Sumatran tigers, orangutans...
Black Rhinoceros
Thinking about the future of these endangered animals, Matson, who has been passionate about horse racing and pet breeding in the past, is struggling to sleep.
He quickly took action, gathered the company's experts to discuss, and finally came up with an incomparably ambitious plan:
Since the current human technology is not enough to successfully clone most endangered animals, even if it is a fluke, the mortality rate is quite high and costly.
If we collect DNA samples of endangered animals first, store them with the most advanced technology, and wait until the technology is mature in the future, then clone a large number of these endangered (or extinct) animals, "resurrect" and bring them back to the human world, is it not an effective means of continuing animal species?
Build one of the largest repositories of dna from endangered animals in Europe and around the world, and preserve the breeding seeds for endangered animals!
After the plan was finalized, he immediately went to Chester Zoo for help, asking about the feasibility of collecting DNA from rare animals in the park.
The answer given by the zoo made him feel mixed:
"In other words, we would have thought this idea was crazy and violated moral taboos, but today, even if you can clone them immediately, it is a little too late to save them (endangered animals), we agree..."
After getting permission from the zoo, Matson immediately went to action, organizing the company's people to collect DNA samples from endangered animals and build up stockpiles.
He wants to use the most advanced technology to build a "Noah's Ark" that preserves the tinder of species for endangered animals!
How big is this "Noah's Ark" project?
According to Matson's vision, he would collect 50 million DNA samples of endangered animals, at least 50 dna samples of each animal, so as to ensure the diversity of this animal, so that when they are "resurrected" by cloning technology in the future, the species can successfully and naturally reproduce enough to survive.
To collect DNA samples from endangered animals, Matson often travels the world with the company's people.
In order to collect the DNA of African elephants, Matson went to South Africa with a large number of people, hired a helicopter, and tracked a lone male elephant for a long time.
After hitting the bull elephant with anesthesia gun from the air, Matson and his team got out of the helicopter, checked the body of the bull elephant first, determined that it was healthy, and then stimulated the prostate of the bull elephant with electric shock equipment, collected enough semen, and then left in the helicopter.
The collected African bull elephant semen was then transported back to the UK and kept in Matson's frozen liquid nitrogen tank.
Last December, Matson took out the money to register a charitable foundation called Nature's SAFE to specialize in the global collection of DNA from endangered animals.
Matson even came up with slogans like "Freeze 50 million pieces of endangered animal DNA in time."
In this way, one whirlwind after another, DNA samples of Far Eastern leopards, black rhinos, pheasant frogs and other animals were also sent to Matson's "Noah's Ark" and stored in Nature's SAFE ultra-low temperature liquid nitrogen tank.
DNA samples of golden lion marmosets, mouse deer, and Colombian spider monkeys also boarded Noah's Ark a few months later.
Golden Lion Marmoset
As Matson became more active, Nature's SAFE's reputation grew, and many institutions heard about what Matson was doing and offered to lend an olive branch, help and seek cooperation.
Oxford University, the European Council of Zoos, etc., have all provided Mattson with a lot of help.
In addition to the semen of endangered animals, egg cells and other organs are also the DNA material that Matson is keen to store.
Since getting busy with this "Noah's Ark" project, Matson has become more and more urgent.
"We can collect 30 animal samples every month, but it's not enough, it's only a very small part of endangered animals, and we have to race against time!"
There are also some animal DNA, which Matson admits is very difficult to collect and needs to find a professional team to help.
For example, the world's smallest mammal with a length of only 3 centimeters, the Thai pig-nosed bat,
And the world's largest mammal, the 30-meter-long giant beast - the blue whale...
Thai pig-nosed bat
Matson's actions have been highly praised by biologists and environmental agencies, and some experts have given Matson's work this high praise:
"Instead of simply preserving DNA, they have preserved high-quality DNA with the best technology in order to have the ability to reproduce and resurrect endangered animals in the future!" Matson takes the idea of biobanking to a whole new level. ”
Today, Matson is still stepping up his work, and the 53-year-old cherishes time more than ever, because he knows that 50 million pieces of DNA of endangered animals have a long way to go, and every day there are new animals going extinct, and he needs to race against time.
Speaking of his "Noah's Ark", Matson not only lamented the urgency of time, but also worried about another problem:
"I'm afraid people are starting to fascinate with 'Jurassic Park' (cloning technology that brings dinosaurs back to life), with cloning technology that can bring extinct animals back to life, and forget that what we're supposed to do is protect animals as well as possible while they're still alive!"
As for the significance of using cloned animals to continue the species, Matson himself is also a mixture of tastes.
His horse farm features a white horse named Murka's Gem, born in 2011, a clone of a racehorse named Gem Twist who died in 2008.
Clone Ma Murka's Gem
Whenever Matson looks at the cloned Murka's Gem, he always wonders:
"Genetically, it's obviously exactly the same as Gem Twist, every DNA, every cell is the same, and we raise it the same way, but it's 5 centimeters shorter than the mother..."
"Therefore, whether the clone can resurrect the original ontology, the technology has developed for more than 20 years, and so far there is no certainty..."
As Matson has always feared, if the future really uses cloning technology to revive extinct animals, will it still be the original ones?
The answer to everything will probably only be revealed in the future, when those who use Matson to collect DNA stocks of endangered animals will reveal...
Ref：
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/natures-safe?utm_source=digg
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