Colossal Biosciences is a biotechnology firm based in Dallas, United States.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which is the first line of defense for the United States, has recently developed a renewed interest in natural history. a report in newsweek said that Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology firm based in Dallas, United States, working to save the woolly mammoth from extinction, has received financial support from the CIA, despite the fact that the agency usually deals with extinct organisms. Not known to deal.
Peter Thiel, Tony Robbins, Paris Hilton and Winklevoss Capital are some of the more investors in the firm, the report said.
According to Intercept, Colossal’s new investor, In-Q-Tel, is registered as a non-profit venture capital organization sponsored by the agency. The firm has recently expressed interest in biotechnology and DNA sequencing.
“Biotechnology and the broader bioeconomy are vital to the further development of humanity. Developing them and having an understanding of what is possible is important for all aspects of our government,” explained Colossal co-founder Ben Lam Intercept.
Mammoths were massive, hairy elephant-like creatures that existed between 5 million and 4,000 years ago, becoming extinct with the retreat of Ice Age glaciers, around the same time that the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built.
newsweek He adds that he has consistently captured the imaginations of individuals who want to resurrect extinct species, especially since scientists were able to decode the giant genome using DNA recovered from mummified bones.
Using CRISPR (Clustered Regular Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing, researchers want to resurrect extinct creatures like mammoths and Tasmanian tigers.
According to fierceRetrieving the mammoths would help slow the melting of Arctic permafrost, preventing the release of greenhouse gases trapped there. It will also help save the present-day elephants from extinction.