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Colossal, the Dallas company behind a Jurassic Park-esque international research effort to revive extinct species such as mammoths and dodos, is now funding other scientists trying to keep living species from going extinct too.
Colossal’s newly launched non-profit Colossal Foundation announced a $1.5 million grant today to the University of Melbourne to fund its genomics work on Australian bird species.
The money will fund the lab of Professor Andrew Pask to do genetic sequencing and annotation for reference genome work on several bird species, while accelerating work on stem-cell and gene-editing technologies for avian species, an area that has lagged similar work on humans and other mammals.
“These tools will be an important first step toward using gene-editing technologies to help birds adapt to their changing habitats, such as by engineering resistance to introduced pathogens or reintroducing lost genetic diversity,” Pask said in a release.
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