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How AI Is Helping Solve Extinction w/ Ben Lamm | EP #53
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The Evolution of the Asian Elephant Genome
Scientists have created a reference genome for an Asian elephant that's 99.6% similar to a mammoth. They're not trying to bridge that 4% or fill it in, like in Jurassic Park, they're trying to fill in the gaps. We are de-extinking lost genes that produce these physical attributes that no longer exist in that species. And so I think that we are... because of the targeted nature of our approach, it does make it easier than making a million changes. It's also a pretty smart way to think about the engineering efforts versus trying to go overboard.
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