The starting colossal cinemas is intended to use gene-editing technology to reduce the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. The company recently achieved important milestones: last year they generated stem cells for the Asian elephant, the close living family member of the Mammoet, and this month they published photos of genetically modified mice with long, mammoth -like jackets. According to the founders of the company, including Harvard and MIT Professor George Church, these progress Colossal are taking a big step closer to their goal to use mammoths to combat climate change by restoring ecosystems of Arctic grassland. Church also claims that Colossal's woolly mammoth program helps to protect endangered species such as the Asian elephant and says: “We inject money into conservation efforts.”
In other words, the scientific progress that makes colossal in their laboratory, will result in positive changes in the tropics to the North Pole area, from the ground to the atmosphere.
The Jurassic Park-like Ambitions of Colossal have conquered the imagination of the public and investors, making the latest appreciation to $ 10 billion. And the company's research seems to result in some technical progress. But I would claim that the broader effort to extend the mammoth-as far as the conservation efforts are to be misleading. In the end, Colossal's efforts will not be about helping wild elephants or saving the climate. They will be about creating beings for human spectacle, with insufficient attention to the costs and opportunities for the lives of people and animals.
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