Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, declared onstage that humanity has a “moral obligation and an ethical obligation to pursue technologies [that] undo some of the things that we [as a species] have done.”
Lamm’s startup aims to use gene-editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the woolly mammoth (sadly, he said dinosaurs remain impossible). But he also said the broader goal of resurrecting lost species may require a “Manhattan Project-scale project” to “back up” endangered species in “bio vaults.”
