Ben Lamm
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Well, look, if you can get the right permits to export them to us, we'll totally sequence them, right?
And so this goes back to that pop culture thing.
Some people would be like, oh no, that's controversial or that sounds like aliens and weird.
You're a science company, why would you do that?
But I just believe that we don't know everything, right?
And we learn new stuff every single day.
And so I told Jesse, I was like, look, we have an ancient DNA lab.
We arguably have the number one computational biology lab in the entire world.
And so if you can get us the samples and bring them in the right way, because that's another issue with samples, right?
You need to go through the right chain of custody.
You got to make sure that you have government support on both sides.
And if you can get that government support from the Peruvian government, because there's been some controversy around this where they don't, where like not everyone that's taken samples out of Peru had that permission.
Yeah.
So as long as we have permission from the government, people want to do it.
Sure, I'll go run it on our.
You know, we have the top ancient DNA because, you know, one situation is it was it's something crazy.
Another situation is it's fake.
Another situation is it's some weird mutation around a population of humans.
But no matter what, that's still interesting.
And it's minimal work for us to do.