A genetic engineering company in Texas that wants to artificially recreate extinct species has made technological breakthroughs that put it close to achieving its goal. Some experts, however, recommend caution.
Colossal Biosciences announced that it is close to resurrecting the woolly mammoth—a species of arctic elephant that went the way of the dodo millennia ago—using intact DNA.
If all goes as planned, the world may see its first genetically engineered, woolly mammoth-elephant hybrid calves by 2028, it said.
“Modern conservation works. It just doesn’t work at the speed at which we’re destroying the planet,” said Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm, a serial biotech entrepreneur who founded the company with genomics pioneer George Church in 2021....
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