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Leveraging AI Unlocks A New World Of Possibilities in Biotech (like de-extincting the woolly mammoth) Luminexus
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Alexander Titus | Colossal Biosciences
By 2050 half of all animal species could go extinct. Currently 6 species go extinct each hour. That is a MASSIVE number.
What if I told you that there was a way to eliminate this catastrophic reality? A way to save species, restore balance to Earth and combat climate change all at the same time?
This is the exact question we seek perspective on in this conversation with Dr. Alexander Titus, head of computational sciences at Colossal Biosciences. What Colossal is doing sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie: they are working to bring the woolly mammoth back to live, a creature that has been extinct for over 300 000 years. And Colossal isn’t doing this for bragging rights - they are doing it for the enormous environmental impact this could have on the world. The weight of woolly mammoths walking on the tundra thousands of years ago trapped greenhouse gases in the tundra. The extinction of the mammoth has released megatons of CO2 from the permafrost. Re introducing the mammoth back to it’s stomping ground could reverse this and eliminate close to 10% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.🦣
Alexander Titus | Colossal Biosciences
By 2050 half of all animal species could go extinct. Currently 6 species go extinct each hour. That is a MASSIVE number.
What if I told you that there was a way to eliminate this catastrophic reality? A way to save species, restore balance to Earth and combat climate change all at the same time?
This is the exact question we seek perspective on in this conversation with Dr. Alexander Titus, head of computational sciences at Colossal Biosciences. What Colossal is doing sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie: they are working to bring the woolly mammoth back to live, a creature that has been extinct for over 300 000 years. And Colossal isn’t doing this for bragging rights - they are doing it for the enormous environmental impact this could have on the world. The weight of woolly mammoths walking on the tundra thousands of years ago trapped greenhouse gases in the tundra. The extinction of the mammoth has released megatons of CO2 from the permafrost. Re introducing the mammoth back to it’s stomping ground could reverse this and eliminate close to 10% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.🦣
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