The CEO of Colossal, a startup with which genetic processing techniques are to be used in order to bring back extinct species, including the Wooly Mammut, the audience at SXSW assured that the company has no plans to create a real Jurassic Park.
“Modern preservation does not work (…) and we need a” de-Exincion “toolkit,” said the CEO of Colossal, Ben Lamm, during an interview on the stage on Sunday in Austin and answered questions from the actor and board member Joe Manganiello. “I think we have a moral obligation and an ethical obligation to undo technologies (that) some of the things we have done (as species).”
Colossal is working on bringing back the Dodo bird and Thylacin, who is generally known as Tasmanian tigers, and the Wooly Mammut, added Lamb. However, the Dinosaurs de-finishes would not be possible due to the lack of usable sources for dinosaur DNA.
The Colossal resident in Dallas, which was founded by Lamm and George Church in 2023, explained that it would like to have wool mammothybrid calves by 2028, which hopes to re-come back into the Arctic Tundra habitat. The company also leads a research project to return Tasmanian Tiger Joeyys to their original Tasmanian and broader Australian habitat after a time of captivity.
This vision has been resonance from investors. Hundreds of millions of dollars have collected risk capital, and it is Currently worth 10.2 billion US dollars.
Colossal has expressed two companies that focus on certain applications, including a third that has not yet been announced. Lamm also said he thinks there are “billions of dollars” that have to be made from the “resumption” of species and carbon sequestration.
One of the youngest top -class projects is colossal The gene machines “wool mouse”, A mouse species with mutations inspired by woolen mammuts. The mice that have long, shaggy, common fur were developed using a mixture of mammoth-like and well-known mouse hair growth mutations.
Some experts have expressed the skepticism of the new species and argues that the experiment was more about maus genetics than a breakthrough in the expansion.
However, Lamm said that the project validated the work of Kolossal to woolen mammoth research.
“It showed us that our changes we made for the mammoth are the right changes,” said Lamm.
Lamb touched AI during the interview and said he believed that the combination of access to computer, AI and synthetic biology will be the “most dangerous” technologies that the world has seen. But he also painted an idealistic picture of the future and predicted that the progress of synthetic biology in particular will lead to cancer, removal of plastics from the oceans and the widespread availability of clean water.
“We will have a real rule of life where we can exterminate invasive types or bring back lost species,” said Lamm.
Lamm also said that he expects humanity to “achieve a longevity” over the next 20 years, which adds the average human life expectancy for years and makes immortality a theoretical possibility.
Beyond human durability, said Lamm, said that a de-extractinization may require a “project in Manhattan Project Scale” in order to support endangered types, especially in “organic vaults” to create stem and egg cells. Lamm said he had spoken to “a country that was excited about it” – without naming.
With regard to the work of the public sector, lamb mentioned that colossal meets the US government authorities “quarterly” and that the government has probably invested in colossal through grants.
