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The Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth
Humanity is faced with yet another ethical dilemma: just because we can, doesn’t mean we should
Chances are that if I asked you to imagine a dragon, unicorn, or woolly mammoth, I probably wouldn’t need to describe them. You already know that dragons resemble giant flying lizards, unicorns look like horses with a single horn atop their heads, and woolly mammoths resemble furry elephants.
Except dragons and unicorns are magical creatures that never existed (that we know of), while woolly mammoths were quite real indeed — and might become so again. Scientists recently made a significant breakthrough that brings them one step closer to resurrecting the prehistoric woolly mammoth by 2028.
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It’s nothing short of incredible that we exist during a time when the idea of resurrecting an extinct animal is closer to reality than science fiction. Respected geneticist and serial biotech entrepreneur George Church and Ben Lamm, an emerging technology and software entrepreneur, created Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company.
Colossal utilizes CRISPR technology, which the National Human Genome Research Institute says research scientists use to “selectively modify the DNA of…
