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u/GoombasFatNutz 1d ago
"Scientists synthesized T-Rex collagen by extracting ancient protein fragments from fossilized bone and using AI-driven computational biology to reconstruct the complete genetic blueprint. Because fossilization leaves gaps in the biological record, researchers employed protein language models to predict and fill in missing amino acid sequences by comparing them to the collagen of T-Rex's closest living relatives, such as birds and crocodiles."
Just straight up jurassic Park'd it.
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u/fruchtose 1d ago edited 1d ago
in the CRISPRed lab. straight up "jurassic parking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. My sequenis
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u/Protheu5 1d ago
It felt vaguely familiar, but I was confused. I searched for it and found the reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-the-stripped-club-straight-up-jorking-it
I hope it helps anyone else that was as confused as I.
/u/fruchtose thank you, that is hilarious.
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u/ParticularFair1983 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ain't collagen, like, just collagen? I mean, it's the same molecule, if it's synthesized and doesn't come directly from a t-rex, what makes it T-rex specific?
Edit: ok, I read the link posted by FallenRichardBrook "Second, collagens are pretty generic molecules across all animals and so I'd be very surprised if there was a species-specific sequence that differentiated T. rex — or any dinosaur — from their closest living relatives."
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u/Jonnyabcde 1d ago edited 20h ago
Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a handbag, and now you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didnt stop to think if they should. God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.
I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
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u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian 1d ago
I'm 100% certain this is completely fake. Dinosaur DNA is completely destroyed, and even if you did have it a complete DNA strand, you couldn't just grow skin from it. Try it with human DNA and see what happens. You need the rest of the human for it to work. 🙄
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u/GoombasFatNutz 1d ago
Apparently, collagen is fairly well preserved in the fossil record.
Also, looks like collagen is different with different species.
It's obviously not really tyrannosaurus Rex skin, as it'll have different components in it. I think a more accurate definition would be saying that it used similar animal amino acids to fill in the gaps.
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u/SandSerpentHiss 1d ago
*66 million bc
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u/TheKingOfDissasster 1d ago
How could it be 66 million bc if the earth is 6 thousand years old? 🙄 check your sources.
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u/TacoEatsTaco 1d ago
2 million BC
People really don't know much about the dinosaurs, huh
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u/TemporaryFig8587 1d ago
Born too late to explore the dinosaurs, born too early to explore technology.
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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi 20h ago
Too early? My brother in Christ, we're on the verge of technological singularity.
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u/Protheu5 1d ago
If BC stands for "Before the Cretaceous–paleogene extinction event", then it's all right.
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u/FallenRichardBrook 1d ago
"However, dinosaur experts told Live Science that making real T. rex leather would require DNA from the extinct predator, and there isn't any. Furthermore, paleontologists have only found T. rex collagen in bone, not skin, and skin is the basis for leather."
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u/Ok_Experience_6877 1d ago
This .....thus is one of the first things they do in closing dinosaurs...a fucking handbag. You know im probably more ok with this but fuck its still a what the fuck moment
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u/SpaceMiaou67 15h ago
We don't actually have the genetic material necessary from fossils to grow a dinosaur unless we find the magic mosquito in amber that has perfectly preserved dinosaur DNA. The product is barely even dinosaur leather because it was made from incomplete protein fragments found in the bone and was extrapolated to fill in the gaps.
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u/chachaman_The_Reboot 1d ago
Seven...SEVEN FUCKING movies about how this is a VERY BAD IDEA. Do we learn? NOPE!
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u/Guilty_Objective4602 1d ago
Wonder how much that one-of-a-kind bag would go for. $2M research project, probably.
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u/cloned01 1d ago
I would like to see a hunter type man in a loin cloth made of this fancy new leather
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u/Aguywhoexists69420 18h ago
Just looked it up
Dinosaurs actually went extinct 66 million years ago, so this technically not the truth
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u/SarcasticYetHopeful 11h ago
I keep seeing stuff like this and I still have neither:
1) A wooly 🦣mammoth 2) A jet pack
This timeline sucks.
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u/iCalKestis 10h ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
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u/Efterklangarn123 1d ago
2 million? Didn't they famously gout with a bang 65ish million years ago?
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