Ben Lamm
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Right.
And so we work with them on that then separately.
And this also creates all kind of like weird.
We get weird articles about this, but In-Q-Tel, which is part of the federal government and
and they're most known for being related to the intelligence community.
They're investors in the business, so we constantly brief them.
That also creates crazy conspiracies where people are like, they're creating battle mammoths.
It's like, we're not creating battle mammoths.
Let us just make mammoths first, right?
And so...
And so we work very, very closely with the federal government.
We're closely with the USDA, Fish and Wildlife, FDA.
And so it's really important just to be transparent because we're working in areas that no one's ever done this.
No one's ever kind of worked through all of the applications to synthetic biology as a whole, but specifically like extinct species.
And so I think the best thing that we do is we work so closely with so many of these organizations, just keeping them like,
in the loop that everyone feels comfortable with what we do.
Yeah, it'd affect all of us, right?
And so what people don't sometimes realize, and I didn't before I ran this business, is there's this concept of keystone species.
And so there are these species that are absolutely critical to the ecosystems, right?
And so if those get removed,