Colossal Biosciences
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Colossal Biosciences 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 Colossal announced cloned red wolves alongside the dire wolves to add genetic diversity to the endangered red wolf population.
“we've cloned these wolves as a means to introduce new red wolf genetic diversity into the existing red wolf population”
Huberman Lab: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 2:01:00
Shapiro says Colossal's moa project is led by the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, with Māori people deciding how many moa to make and where to release them.
“Our MOA project is led by the Ngāi Tahu Research Center in South Island of New Zealand”
Huberman Lab: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:27:01
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
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.