{"id":241204,"date":"2026-05-19T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/humans-if-you-like-artificial-intelligence-youll-love-the-artificial-egg\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:12:27","slug":"humans-if-you-like-artificial-intelligence-youll-love-the-artificial-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/humans-if-you-like-artificial-intelligence-youll-love-the-artificial-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans, If You Like Artificial Intelligence, You\u2019ll Love the Artificial Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"


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So Lamm stepped down from Hypergiant and joined forces with the six-foot-five \u201cking of synthetic biology.\u201d The pair set out to bring back the woolly mammoth, in addition to other extinct species, like the moa bird and the dire wolf. They were motivated by a grim statistic: One third<\/a> of the world\u2019s animal and plant species are projected to go extinct by 2050.<\/p>\n

Andrew Pask, Colossal\u2019s chief biology officer, said that we missed the chance to \u201chit the stop button\u201d on planet-wreckers like global warming. \u201cWe actually have to reengineer things that we\u2019ve already lost because we\u2019ve already gone too far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last year the company claimed it bred<\/a> three dire wolves, the six-foot-long wolf that went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago. Critics pushed back: New Scientist<\/em><\/a> called the pups \u201cgene-edited grey wolves that look a bit like dire wolves.\u201d Still, Colossal hailed the wolves, which were born via hound surrogate, as a success.<\/p>\n

But Pask said using surrogates is difficult when trying to repopulate whole species. For example, if Colossal were working to restore a koala population after a bushfire with 100 new koalas, \u201cright now we\u2019d need 100 koala surrogates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just not feasible to do that, particularly if they\u2019ve just had a massive population decline,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The egg is the company\u2019s first big win in artificial-gestation technology. Although synthetic eggs existed before, Pask said they were \u201cunsophisticated\u201d and required scientists to manually pump oxygen<\/a> to the embryo. Colossal\u2019s egg is a hexagonal, 3D-printed frame covered in clear nanomaterial that allows oxygen to flow in but prevents moisture from flowing out.<\/p>\n

Crucially, Colossal\u2019s egg includes a small window at the top to let the researchers \u201cactually see the embryo as it\u2019s developing,\u201d Pask said. When the chicks are ready to hatch, they poke through the membrane, just like with a real egg.<\/p>\n

So far the eggs have successfully incubated 26 chicks, which are living on Colossal\u2019s Dallas ranch. The team will spend the next six months ensuring the chickens are healthy and can reproduce, before potentially using the eggs to birth dodos.<\/p>\n

Lamm said the team has already learned an \u201cenormous\u201d amount that it will carry into its artificial-womb development, like how to deliver nutrients to an embryo throughout the growth process and \u201chow sensitive embryos are to even very small changes in those systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Down the road will be marsupials, then larger mammals like elephants\u2014provided the company can successfully build its artificial wombs. It will be a long and potentially fruitless road. Pranam Chatterjee, a bioengineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania who worked in Church\u2019s lab and contributed to some of Colossal\u2019s early work, estimated that we\u2019re decades away from a human artificial womb.<\/p>\n

He said scientists still need to understand how to engineer tissues necessary for a healthy birth, from the placenta to the uterine lining. Even beyond that, Chatterjee emphasized, there is a lot we don\u2019t yet know about the reproductive process.<\/p>\n

Our current knowledge is like a film with a low frame rate: Chatterjee said we have snapshots, such as measurements of hormone levels, but we don\u2019t have the full story, like how the womb induced those hormones at that time. \u201cThose steps are still being studied, and we\u2019ll get there,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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