Commentary: To mark the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm shares how the movie influenced his company’s plans to de-extinct animals
But it is our belief that it is possible to safeguard against or even stop that fatalist future vision using a similar approach in the original movie with some slight variations. It all goes back to genetics and a lot of what I learned about when I first met George.
The first time I met with my now co-founder Dr. Church, a tall, lanky professor on the Harvard campus, I asked him if he really thought de-extinction was possible. He responded that he thought not only was it possible, but that along the way the effort would produce advanced technologies that would have a substantial impact on animal conservation at large.
In Colossal’s first few years of work, our woolly mammoth research alone has not only accelerated genetic rescue in elephants, but also, it is working to cure a deadly elephant virus that kills 25% of all baby elephants worldwide each year. The de-extinction toolkit is also establishing a genetic backup of all living elephant species, and building the necessary tools for elephant cloning and gestation. And now, unlike Dr.
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