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Episode description
Steven Rinella talks with Matt James of Colossal Biosciences, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, and Randall Williams.
Topics discussed: Explaining de-extinction; bringing back the woolly mammoth, dodo bird, and Tasmanian tiger; bringing back Mingus, or Mingus 2.0; watch our Bull Boat race video between Steve and Cal; gene editing with CRISPR; how do you manage habitat for an animal that hasn’t been around for 400 years?; nature-based solutions for restoring ecosystems; developing technologies to create artificial wombs; eradication; and more.
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