"Colossal Biosciences, valued at $10.2bn after raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from investors including celebrities spanning from Tiger Woods to Paris Hilton, has provoked a stampede of acclaim as well as denunciation after announcing last year it had made the dire wolf, a species lost from the world for more than 10,000 years, de-extinct via the birth of three new pups."
"Jurassic Park taught a large population of people, including non-scientists, that there's this thing called DNA and humans now can change it, Lamm added. Now, the movie goes terribly wrong because it's a dystopian movie about hubris. But at the end of the day, I think it did a lot more right than did wrong."
"Colossal is doing this by sourcing ancient DNA from fossils and gene editing, making analogies with Jurassic Park easy to conjure. The company said it will also bring back the woolly mammoth within the next two years, to be followed by that totem of extinction, the dodo."
Colossal Biosciences, a $10.2 billion company backed by celebrity investors, has announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf through the birth of three pups, with plans to resurrect woolly mammoths within two years and dodos thereafter. The company employs ancient DNA sourced from fossils combined with gene editing techniques to achieve de-extinction. CEO Ben Lamm acknowledges comparisons to Jurassic Park, noting the film educated the public about DNA manipulation while cautioning against hubris. The initiative addresses broader extinction concerns, as species are disappearing at accelerated rates. The project has generated both significant acclaim and substantial criticism regarding the scientific, ethical, and ecological implications of bringing extinct species back to life.
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