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Wooly mammoths to be (re)born by 2027, says biotech firm [1]
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Date: 2023-08-28 13:23:44+00:00
From the company’s website.
““In 2014, I asked my friend Elon Musk who he knew who was poised to make profound changes in the field of genomics, and he said: George Church.”
There’s a similarly gushing statement from Tony Robbins, world famous Life-Coach about his enthusiasm for the mission. Which, incidentally, sounds super creepy(emphasis mine).
At Colossal Biosciences, we endeavor to jumpstart nature’s ancestral heartbeat. To see the Woolly Mammoth thunder upon the tundra once again. To advance the economies of biology and nutrition. To make humanity more human. And to reawaken the lost wilds of Earth. So we, and our planet, can breathe easier.
This isn’t even in the same ballpark as the utterly classic WeWork S-1, a true masterpiece of the techbro hubris genre; but damn does it do its plucky little best. And, naturally, a ‘serial entrepreneur’ and ‘thought leader’ who is a fellow of the “Explorer’s Club” is involved.
(I am slightly jealous of Sara Ord; she gets to be “Director of Species Restoration - Thylacine Lead”, which is something for a business card; though this does also suggest that they aren’t even pacing themselves in vaporware de-extinctions; if they’ve already picked a second)
At least they’ve got the Winklevoss twins and an NFT-slinger on as investors.
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