Colossal Biosciences' chief science officer is "making extinction a thing of the past."
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00:00I mean, to me, the choice is obvious. It's a dodo. I even have the tattoo. You want to see it?
00:07Hi, I am Beth Shapiro. I am the chief science officer at Colossal Biosciences,
00:11and I'm here at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech. Colossal's mission is to make extinction a
00:16thing of the past, to use the tools of genome editing to restore missing components of ecosystems
00:22and make those ecosystems more resilient and robust in the face of present-day climate change.
00:27We're bringing back three species, mammoths, dodos, and thylacines, and in doing so,
00:32developing tools that will help to protect and preserve species that are not yet extinct,
00:36but are in danger of becoming so.