{"id":204596,"date":"2025-01-26T22:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/this-company-is-trying-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-dodo-back-to-life-a-biologist-explains"},"modified":"2025-01-26T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:44:32","slug":"this-company-is-trying-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-dodo-back-to-life-a-biologist-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/this-company-is-trying-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-dodo-back-to-life-a-biologist-explains","title":{"rendered":"This Company Is Trying To Bring The Woolly Mammoth And The Dodo Back To Life\u2014A Biologist Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-company-is-trying-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-dodo-back-to-life-a-biologist-explains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mission that is less a nostalgic yearning for a prehistoric past than it is a solution to combat climate change, the company\u2019s founders have said. By reintroducing mammoths to Arctic environments, they hope to rejuvenate grasslands and reduce permafrost thaw\u2014a major source of methane emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The potential ripple effects of such an ecological intervention have raised profound ethical and scientific questions but have nonetheless captivated researchers, investors and the public alike.<\/p>\n<p>Colossal Bioscience\u2019s approach to de-extinction is rooted in cutting-edge advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a mission that is less a nostalgic yearning for a prehistoric past than it is a solution to combat climate change, the company\u2019s founders have said. By reintroducing mammoths to Arctic environments, they hope to rejuvenate grasslands and reduce permafrost thaw\u2014a major source of methane emissions. The potential ripple effects of such an ecological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}