Summary:
- Entrepreneur Ben Lamm claims that his company, Colossal Biosciences, will be able to bring back the long-extinct woolly mammoth within the next 4 years.
- The company plans to use gene-editing technology to revive the mammoth by inserting mammoth DNA into the genome of its closest living relative, the Asian elephant.
- If successful, this would be a groundbreaking achievement in the field of de-extinction and could have significant implications for conservation efforts and our understanding of prehistoric ecosystems.