Black-footed ferret
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Black-footed ferret has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Beth ShapiroAmerican evolutionary biologist and Chief Science Officer at Colossal Biosciences, formerly a professor at UC Santa Cruz and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Shapiro says domestic ferrets are not susceptible to plague, so identifying the genetic basis could allow editing black-footed ferrets to be plague resistant.
“Domestic ferrets are not susceptible to plague. And that susceptibility must have some genetic underpinning”
Huberman Lab: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:46:17
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- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
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Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth ShapiroHuberman Lab · Oct 5, 2026 · 2 h 16 min
Andrew Huberman talks with evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro about species concepts, Neanderthal DNA, Colossal Biosciences' de-extinction projects, genetic rescue, and the ethics of human genetic selection.