Ben Lamb
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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Yeah, but how?
Where do you leave?
Where?
What do I do?
Officials at Colossal Biosciences defended their controversial goals while giving NPR a rare look inside the company's new Dallas laboratory.
That's where Colossal scientists are analyzing DNA from the woolly mammoth and other extinct species in the hopes of resurrecting the animals.
That goal has drawn skepticism from many scientists.
They doubt it's possible and worry it might be dangerous if it were.
But Ben Lamb, Colossal's co-founder and CEO, dismisses those concerns.
I'd say it's unethical not to do this.
It's immoral not to do it.
Colossal says scientists could produce a woolly mammoth in about two years.
Rob Stein, NPR News, Dallas.
That animal looks like a direwolf, it will behave like a direwolf, and it is a direwolf.
So this is a very long plan, right? Like tomorrow we're not going to have mammoths and the next day we're not going to have a thousand of them. But over time, you know, we're going to have this entire lineage of cold adapted elephants that we put back into the wild that can interbreed and thrive.
Current conservation models work. They just don't work at the speed of which we are changing the planet and eradicating species. So we need new tools and technologies so that we can engineer life in a better way that's more adaptable to be coexistent with humans.
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