American biotechnology company founded by Ben Novak and George Church that aims to de-extinct the woolly mammoth, thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), and dodo bird through CRISPR gene editing — representing the most commercially serious attempt to reverse extinction.
Transformed de-extinction from a scientific thought experiment into a commercially funded research program — using CRISPR to edit Asian elephant DNA toward mammoth traits — making extinction reversal a near-term biotechnology rather than a distant fantasy.
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