Colossal Biosciences announced on Tuesday, Feb. 3, that it is collaborating to save the DNA of 10,000 animals facing extinction, according to Time. This announcement follows the company's previous success in engineering the return of the dire wolf after 10,000 years of extinction.
The world's living inhabitants are facing a dire situation, with approximately 30% of known species expected to become extinct by 2050, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. Colossal Biosciences aims to combat this by preserving the genomes of these animals, offering the potential for them to be brought back in the future.
In other news, advancements in technology continue to make headlines. Multiple news sources reported on recent tech advancements, including Mistral AI launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, a fast and private speech-to-text model. Additionally, AI coding startup Kilo released Kilo CLI 1.0 with support for over 500 AI models after pivoting from IDE-centric approaches.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society unveiled the second slate of projects selected for the 24th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, spotlighting 12 work-in-progress titles that bring together Asian cinema heavyweights and promising new voices, Variety reported on Feb. 4. The forum is set to be presented March 17-19. The lineup includes projects led by Nick Cheung, Chung Suet-ying, and Reza Rahadian.
Meanwhile, Nature News issued a correction to a previously published article. The correction addressed errors in Extended Data Figures within a Nature publication. Specifically, Extended Data Fig. 4d was inadvertently presented as a partial duplicate of Extended Data Fig. 2a, and the strains in both panels were partially misannotated. According to Nature, this occurred due to an error during figure preparation, as the assays for multiple strains were performed together on the same petri dish, sharing a wild-type control and yielding highly similar phenotypes. The corrected figures are now available. The issued correction does not affect the overall results and conclusions of the study.
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