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Anybody who has seen Jurassic Park will know that the park’s ferocious inhabitants are created by retrieving DNA from an ancient mosquito captured in amber.
In reality, finding sufficiently intact DNA from dinosaurs who died out 66 Million years ago is extremely unlikely, if not impossible…
However, the wooly mammoth only died out about ten to fifteen thousand years ago, so could they be brought back?
Ben Lamm is Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. He joins Seán to discuss.
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Anybody who has seen Jurassic Park will know that the park’s ferocious inhabitants are created by retrieving DNA from an ancient mosquito captured in amber.
In reality, finding sufficiently intact DNA from dinosaurs who died out 66 Million years ago is extremely unlikely, if not impossible…
However, the wooly mammoth only died out about ten to fifteen thousand years ago, so could they be brought back?
Ben Lamm is Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. He joins Seán to discuss.

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