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Dallas voters narrowly approved $140 million in bonds in 1998 to build what would become the American Airlines Center—the arena that is home to the Stars and the Mavericks. Backed by hotel and car rental taxes, the city projected it would pay off the arena by 2028. Thanks to better-than-expected revenues, the city retired those bonds in 2011. Fast forward 28 years, and we’re once again discussing where the city’s NBA and NHL teams will play. And I think it’s time we all did a little homework.
Colossal Biosciences估值或达300亿美元，但基因编辑复活灭绝物种面临科学伦理争议
一家想复活猛犸象的公司，还想做「地球的备份计划」，正在谈一笔可能让它估值最高冲到300亿美元（合人民币近2100亿元）的融资。 2021年才成立的Colossal Biosciences，5年里从1500万美元种子轮，长到了如今洽谈200亿到300亿美元的区间，比18个月前那一轮翻了2到3倍。 它有两个招牌人物。一个是从没拿过博士学位的连续创业者Ben Lamm，一个是在哈佛大学做了几十年遗传学的泰斗George Church。一个负责把科学讲成童话，一个负责让童话有人信。 它干的事听着像《侏罗纪公园》：用基因编辑把灭绝的物种带回来。恐狼已经在2024年被它「生」出了三只，猛犸象的目标定在2028年。与此同时它还在做人造子宫，创始人说明年就能用，可能指向人类的生育治疗。 可这家公司从头到尾泡在质疑里。自己的首席科学官亲口承认，那三只恐狼并不是真的复活，只是做了20处编辑的灰狼。它没有一篇经过同行评审的论文。它的叙事被保守派拿去弱化《濒危物种法》。它的人造子宫，让人联想到堕胎辩论。 一家卖「复活」的公司，先把自个儿估到了300亿。 「地球的备份计划」 Colossal...
Derivation of elephant induced pluripotent stem cells
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Abstract Biodiversity loss in the present era requires new tools for studying nonmodel organisms. Elephants are both an endangered species and excellent models for studying complex phenotypes including size, social behavior and longevity. Here we report the first derivation of elephant (Elephas maximus) induced pluripotent stem (emiPS) cells.
By Evan Appleton, Kyunghee Hong, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Asaf Ashkenazy-Titelman, Cristina Rodriguez-Caycedo, Ketaki Bhide, Hao Bai, Ana Beatriz Queiroz, Jorgen W. Nelson, Anthony Mastracci Verified, Theodore Nelson, Kairui Zhang, Amanda Kowalczyk, Austin J. Bow, Jaroslav Slamecka, Krista Ryon, Nadia Houerbi, Ashley S. Kleinman, Chi-Lam Poon, Wendy K. Kiso, Matt James, In-Hyun Park, Charlie Gray, Virginia R. Pearson, Christopher E. Mason, Brandi Cantarel, Karl R. Koehler, Beth Shapiro, Ben Lamm, George J. Church, Eriona Hysolli, Nataly Korover, Xochitl Ambriz-Peña, Cody Rasmussen-Ivey, Grishma Rathod, Gregory Knox, Brody McNutt, Nandini Malviya, Bryan McLendon, Jackie Proszynski, James Kehler
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Chicks hatch from artificial eggs
We heard from the company Colossal Biosciences on the programme not so long ago, when the Boston-based business said they were attempting to bring certain species back from extinction - including the woolly mammoth, and the dire wolf. While these efforts are on-going, the company says they have meanwhile now succeeded in creating artificial eggs to enable them to also bring back birds like the Dodo and the giant moa.
Will Woolly mammoths be brought back from extinction?
Articles Interviews Will Woolly mammoths be brought back from extinction? Resurrecting an ancient marvel... Interview with Ben Lamm, Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences MAMMOTH Today, we're exploring what lurks in nature's freezer. Let’s start with the largest: in 2010, tusk hunters in the Arctic Circle discovered the perfectly intact body of a young woolly mammoth that had been preserved in permafrost. They called it ‘Yuka’, after the nearby village of Yukagir where it was found.
Life on Mars? Let's focus on fixing the Earth first
Ben Lamm Why is so much money ploughed into making other planets habitable, when we cannot even look after our own? Earth's ecosystems are in crisis mode. Species are vanishing at rates that should make everyone afraid. Humanity dreams of terraforming Mars — enabling it to support human life — and building colonies on the moon, but until we prove that we can keep Earth alive, what chance do we have of constructing a habitable planet from scratch?
Life on Mars? Let’s focus on fixing the Earth first - by reviving extinct species
Why is so much money ploughed into making other planets habitable, when we cannot even look after our own? Earth’s ecosystems are in crisis mode. Species are vanishing at rates that should make everyone afraid. Humanity dreams of terraforming Mars — enabling it to support human life — and building colonies on the moon, but until we prove that we can keep Earth alive, what chance do we have of constructing a habitable planet from scratch?
14,000-Year-Old Tumat Puppies Preserved in Permafrost Confirmed as Wolf Cubs, Not Early Domesticated Dogs
8 posts • GPT (4.1 mini) Updated Jun 13, 2025, 02:32 PM A recent genetic and chemical analysis has confirmed that the 14,000-year-old preserved puppies discovered in Siberia, known as the Tumat puppies, were wolf cubs rather than early domesticated dogs. This finding challenges previous assumptions that these specimens represented some of the earliest evidence of dog domestication.
14,000-Year-Old Siberian Puppies from Tumat Identified as Two Sister Wolf Cubs, Study by University of York
Daily market recaps with key events, stock movements, and global influences 5 posts • GPT (4.1 mini) Published Jun 12, 2025, 09:41 AM Recent genetic and chemical analyses have revealed that the 14,000-year-old mummified puppies found in Siberia, previously thought to be some of the earliest evidence of dog domestication, were in fact wolf cubs. These specimens, discovered in the Tumat region, are now identified as two sister wolf cubs rather than early domesticated dogs.
Colossal Biosciences Creates Dire-Wolf-Like Creatures in April 2025 Amid Ben Lamm-Led Branding Criticism and Jurassic Park Debate
Daily market recaps with key events, stock movements, and global influences 4 posts • GPT (4.1 mini) Published Jun 7, 2025, 03:01 PM Colossal Biosciences announced in April 2025 that it had created creatures resembling dire wolves, with expectations that their mature howls could be heard within the year.
Colossal Announces Birth of Cloned Dire Wolf After 12,500 Years Using CRISPR Amid Trump Administration Support
9 posts • GPT (4.1 mini) Updated Apr 18, 2025, 07:36 PM Scientists have announced the birth of the first cloned dire wolf, an extinct species that disappeared approximately 12,500 years ago. This milestone was achieved by the biotechnology company Colossal, which has been working on decoding ancient DNA from specimens dating back 13,000 and 72,000 years.
Start-up raises $200-million to bring back the woolly mammoth
Colossal Biosciences is using DNA and genomics to try to resurrect the dodo, Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth.
Colonial-driven extinction of the blue antelope despite genomic adaptation to low population size
Highlights • Blue antelope had low diversity and population size for at least 400,000 years • Lack of inbreeding/high levels of purging suggest adaptation to low population size • Long-term effective population size unaffected by glacial cycles/habitat size • Demonstrates the impact of European colonization on African wildlife Summary Low genomic diversity is generally indicative of small population size and is considered detrimental by decreasing long-term adaptability., , 3 Lynch M. Conery J.
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Council Post: Biotech Companies Are Ripe For Machine Learning Adoption
Founder and CEO of Colossal, Hypergiant, Conversable, ChaoticMoon and TeamChaos. We are at the infancy of the biotech industry’s adoption of machine learning tools. But, over the next 20 years, a more “multidisciplinary and data-intensive approach to life sciences will shift our understanding of and ability to manipulate living matter.” However, lack of data sophistication is limiting the potential for rapid advancement right now. And, in my opinion, the more we wait, the more we will fall behind.
How ‘Jurassic Park’ Is Becoming a Reality Thirty Years Later Original
I remember the first time I saw dinosaurs roar to life on the big screen like it was yesterday. I was eleven years old and as I walked into the theater with a bag of popcorn and a large Coke, I was overcome with excitement. I rushed to get a good seat, right in the middle, and as soon as the first Brachiosaurus walked on the screen and John Hammond uttered those famous words, “Welcome to Jurassic Park,” my jaw dropped further than Dr. Grant’s. Holy shit.
Acredite ou não, a extinção de espécies é um problema de negócios
Ben Lamm 4 minutos de leitura A cada ano, 30 mil espécies são extintas e uma em cada milhão costuma estar em risco de extinção. Esses cálculos alarmantes foram feitos por E. O. Wilson, biólogo de Harvard. Como você provavelmente ainda não sente o prejuízo dessas mudanças em seu escritório no centro da cidade, pode acreditar que isso não vai afetar os negócios. Mas a verdade é que a crise de extinção é, sim, uma crise também de negócios.
The business case for reversing extinction Original
Thirty thousand species are going extinct each year according to Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, and an additional one species per million are traditionally at risk annually. Because you might not notice these detrimental changes from within your downtown office today, you might not think it will impact your business. But the reality is, the extinction crisis is a business crisis.
Council Post: How Companies Can Help Support Biodiversity
Founder/CEO Colossal, Founder Hypergiant, Founder/CEO Conversable[Acq:LPSN], Founder/CEO ChaoticMoon[Acq: ACN], Founder TeamChaos[Acq:Zynga] In the U.S., you could have blinked and missed a momentous announcement that impacts our ability to safeguard and improve our planet. I noticed that news coverage of the COP15 on biodiversity in Montreal was significantly less than that of the COP21 agreement on climate held in Paris in 2015. Nor did it receive the fanfare or celebrity endorsement.
How the sixth extinction crisis can be stalled - or stopped
Opinion BiodiversityFeb 10, 2023 De-extinction of species, including the woolly mammoth, can increase biodiversity and restore ecosystem resilience. Image: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Global Agenda The Agenda Weekly A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda Subscribe today You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. For more details, review our privacy policy.
Elliott Bisnow
Elliott Bisnow is a co-founder of Summit Group, whose family of organizations include Powder Mountain, Summit Series, Summit Junto, and Summit Impact. Bisnow is a startup investor, having made almost 50 early stage investments, including Uber, Coinbase, Warby Parker & Allbirds. At 20 years old, Bisnow started Bisnow Media with his dad Mark, out of his college dorm room.
Las cosas más importantes que he aprendido: 16 años y 7 empresas después
Este artículo fue traducido de nuestra edición en inglés utilizando tecnologías de IA. Pueden existir errores debido a este proceso. Las opiniones expresadas por los colaboradores de Entrepreneur son personales. Fundé mi primera empresa en 2004 y comencé otras seis entre 2010 y 2022. Estas experiencias me enseñaron lecciones invaluables que he compartido con cientos de emprendedores en los aceleradores de TechStars y Austin's Capital Factory y Dallas Entrepreneur Center.
The Most Important Things I've Learned - 16 Years and 7 Companies Later
I founded my first company in 2004 and started six others between 2010 and 2022. These experiences taught me invaluable lessons I've shared with hundreds of entrepreneurs at TechStars accelerators and Austin's Capital Factory and the Dallas Entrepreneur Center. If you had dropped by during office hours, this is what you would've heard: 1. Learn what topics (or issues) you care about I started my last two companies to solve problems that were important to me.
The Most Important Things I've Learned - 16 Years and 7 Companies Later
I founded my first company in 2004 and started six others between 2010 and 2022. These experiences taught me invaluable lessons I've shared with hundreds of entrepreneurs at TechStars accelerators and Austin's Capital Factory and the Dallas Entrepreneur Center. If you had dropped by during office hours, this is what you would've heard: 1. Learn what topics (or issues) you care about I started my last two companies to solve problems that were important to me.
Council Post: What’s Next For AI And E-Commerce?
Entrepreneur: Founder/CEO Hypergiant-Founder/CEO Conversable[Acq:LPSN]-Founder/CEO ChaoticMoon[Acq: Accenture]-Founder TeamChaos[Acq:Zynga] getty Online shopping has accelerated with a notable 30% increase in digital sales in the U.S.; this means that previously nascent or hard-to-sell-in technologies are now being considered by major retailers. Artificial intelligence is one of these technologies that is seeing more rapid integration, with $7.3 billion projected to be spent by retailers in 2022.
When Will Bots Have Their ‘Mobile Moment’?
In 2017, we finally began to see chatbots break into more mainstream usage among consumers. There are a number of factors propelling this usage, from the rising influence of messaging services over social networks to businesses finally committing to an AI future where bots and automated assistants will play an increasingly important role. Consumers are also becoming more comfortable with bot interactions, perhaps the most important element of driving actual value from their deployments.
Council Post: AI Will Change Marketing In Ways You Didn’t Expect
Entrepreneur: Founder/CEO Hypergiant-Founder/CEO Conversable[Acq:LPSN]-Founder/CEO ChaoticMoon[Acq: Accenture]-Founder TeamChaos[Acq:Zynga] getty For the past few years, artificial intelligence has largely been used for marketing analytics. However, as we push toward a more democratized AI future, AI will become a valuable tool in the arsenal of all marketers.
Trump Wants to Go to the Moon. How Do You Market Outer Space?
Media and marketing pros from Warner Bros, YouTube, Tubi and more will share insights, perspectives and advice on how to keep up in this ever-changing industry. Join them in LA at the Convergent TV Summit on October 25. If Trump wins a second term in office, he tweeted about plans to establish a permanent manned presence on the moon, and send the first manned mission to Mars. If he loses, chances are that these top space priorities will happen in the next decade anyway.
It's Time for Brands to Actually Commit to Sustainability
We should all be actively involved in collective work, meaning work not focused on the next big quarter but instead on tearing down the collective apathy of our future. This is the work of our lives: not against the government or each other or to collectively make someone a billionaire many times over. Instead, it is the work that we do every day applied to the biggest issues of our time. Brands need to wake up to climate change and not just marketing departments.
Businesses Are Stepping Up To Address Climate Change
Photo: Getty Should we employ cautious optimism regarding climate change? If you’re over 30 you can probably remember a time when invoking “the future” was a call to imagine a world of endless wonders: autonomous cars, high-speed levitating trains and civilization extending far beyond the confines of Earth.
Why the Government Needs To Create A $10B Venture Fund for Artificial Intelligence
By Ben Lamm, CEO, Hypergiant The greatest threat to our national security is not China, it’s the growing misalignment between the government and emerging technology companies. The U.S. government does not have a unified national agenda regarding artificial intelligence that has broad industry alignment, government investment and a clear sense of strategic imperatives. As such, global corporations are developing AI technology as suits their interests, imaginations and market potential.
Here’s Why Influencers Are Focused on Being Advocates
In 2020, we will see a fundamental shift in how people think about the world. This is due to the growing pressure of issues threatening human existence: climate change, space races, income inequality, food shortages, water shortages, fires, floods, etc. As these threats grow, we will see various forms of marketing change mostly because we will be tired of people who are just trying to make money. Instead, we want to see people who create change.
For your next business opportunity, look to the stars
by Ben Lamm — January 10, 2020 Untitled illustration courtesy Hypergiant. Technology entrepreneur Ben Lamm outlines three space opportunities for budding founders not interested in building hardware. I did not start out as a space entrepreneur — in fact, I know almost no one who has. Instead, I created and sold four other companies in different industries before I got into the space business.
Ben Lamm of Hypergiant Industries: “To get the impossible done you must keep chasing and growing and driving new ideas forward; This is how you can create a ripple effect of massive change in the world”
Thank you so much for joining us, Ben! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path? I have an insatiable curiosity for things that has led me on a number of different career paths. This time I decided to dive in headfirst to my obsession with AI and space. It all started after I sold my last company and joined the advisory boards of The Planetary Society and the Arch Mission.
The problems we’re solving for on Earth will only follow us to Mars
Whether or not humans will colonize Mars in the near future is no longer a matter of debate. But what’s a lot less certain is exactly how we’ll pull it off. There’s a good deal of skepticism about the merits of breaching this next space frontier in the scientific and commercial communities alike.
The problems we’re solving for on Earth will only follow us to Mars
Whether or not humans will colonize Mars in the near future is no longer a matter of debate. But what’s a lot less certain is exactly how we’ll pull it off. Justices stumped in SCOTUS tax refund case with “massive economic significance” There’s a good deal of skepticism about the merits of breaching this next space frontier in the scientific and commercial communities alike.
The Moon Landing in 2024 Will Rock a Marketing Gold Rush
The biggest marketing moment of the 2020s won’t be the next Olympic games or the Super Bowl. It will be when we land on the moon for the second time. The U.S. government has plans to land on the moon by 2024 with both a male and a female astronaut. Like in 1969, it will be a moment that captures the attention of the globe. It will also fuel a major marketing gold rush.
Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate change
As fires rage in the Amazon, people have latched onto the phrase that the Amazon is the “lungs of the earth.” President Emmanuel Macron of France warned that “our house is burning.” Celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Vanessa Hudgens raised funds to support the Amazon, and the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia went viral.
The venture studio is the model we need right now
The world needs big, audacious solutions to the thorniest problems impacting humanity. Problems like climate change, space exploration, oceanic exploration, food shortages and mass violence require government, nonprofits and private enterprises to develop solutions. For the commercial sector, this means a new era of thinking about innovation and commercial opportunities particularly for entrepreneurs. We are seeing the end of the entrepreneurial era that defined the past 30 years.
Perhaps 2019 Is Finally the Prophesized Year of Video for Marketers and Publishers
Marketing gurus and internet celebrities have prophesized the year of video since 2006, and reality has finally caught up. If you don’t believe me, just look around. Vertical video—shot expressly to translate well to a mobile screen—now has its own film festival. Eighty-two percent of Twitter users watch video content on the platform. More than 5 billion videos are viewed on YouTube every day. Video is officially exploding, and the world around it has raced to keep up.
Perhaps 2019 Is Finally the Prophesized Year of Video for Marketers and Publishers
Build your own seamless purchase experience at Commerceweek, February 28-29. Gain strategies for consumer retention with immersive touchpoints, AI innovation and storytelling. Register now at 35% off. Marketing gurus and internet celebrities have prophesized the year of video since 2006, and reality has finally caught up. If you don’t believe me, just look around. Vertical video—shot expressly to translate well to a mobile screen—now has its own film festival.
What I learned from building 5 companies in 5 totally different industries
By Ben Lamm 6 minute Read As teenagers, we are asked to decide which field we would like to pursue—ostensibly for the rest of our working lives. Our college major or the first few jobs we take often become the label that the world uses to describe us. This can be incredibly frustrating for those of us who are seeking new job opportunities and are told we do not have the experience that a new role in a different industry requires.
How To Boost Artificial Intelligence Education In Your Company
The impact of automation in the workforce extends far beyond any individual employee, organization or even industry. As artificial intelligence advances and companies adopt this technology, we’re beginning to see an economic shift. In 2017, JPMorgan estimated that automation has the potential to increase global gross domestic product by more than $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years.
How AI Can Help Agencies Find Their Creative Mojo Again
There has been much justified gesticulating over the decline of ad agencies in the past few years. Some blame falls on the failure of legacy agencies to adjust to the new technological realities. Some blame goes to the endless biz-dev pitch cycles for creative agencies and declining new-biz revenue. After three decades of steady growth in keeping with the overall economy, advertising jobs dropped last year for the first time during an expanding economy.
How AI Can Help Agencies Find Their Creative Mojo Again
Check out Commerceweek, Adweek’s destination for retail innovation. Enhance sales strategy across touchpoints with tips from top marketers. February 28-29 in NYC and virtual. Register. There has been much justified gesticulating over the decline of ad agencies in the past few years. Some blame falls on the failure of legacy agencies to adjust to the new technological realities. Some blame goes to the endless biz-dev pitch cycles for creative agencies and declining new-biz revenue.
Revealing Our Biases: Three Steps To Creating More Objective AI
In 2019, I've found that more and more people are developing their own beliefs about where artificial intelligence is heading in the near future. But I believe that as the creators of this tech, we seem to have forgotten we have the power to determine the potential effects it can have on society.
Utilizing Adaptive Advertising as Brands Taking Stands Becomes More Common
It’s once again in vogue for brands to take stands on important social issues. The 2018 Edelman Earned Brand study found that “nearly two-thirds of consumers around the world now buy on belief, a remarkable increase of 13 points since 2017.” This isn’t simply the rise of social good-minded millennials, either.
Utilizing Adaptive Advertising as Brands Taking Stands Becomes More Common
It’s once again in vogue for brands to take stands on important social issues. The 2018 Edelman Earned Brand study found that “nearly two-thirds of consumers around the world now buy on belief, a remarkable increase of 13 points since 2017.” This isn’t simply the rise of social good-minded millennials, either.
Using Trust as the Driving Force Behind Marketing Strategies
In 2015, Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert Shiller and George Akerlof published a book with a chilling theory: We are all pawns in a market that thrives on manipulation and deception, filled with sellers that exploit our psychological weakness and gullibility for profit. Whether or not you side with Shiller and Akerlof in viewing this trend as a fault of the free market economy, the economic reality still holds true.
Solving The Skills Gap With User-Friendly Artificial Intelligence
While taxes dominated the headlines coming out of Davos World Economic Forum this year, I believe the tech world’s real focus remained on artificial intelligence (AI), automation and the associated skills gap. In an interview with CNBC, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said, “AI technology is in play and companies are going to use it, or else they won't remain competitive. But it's going to create a skills gap.” Of course, we’ve been talking about skills gaps for years.
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