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The World’s First De-Extinction? George Church on Bringing Back the Dire Wolf

Season 2025 Episode 7205 | 17m 57s

This week marked a major scientific breakthrough: the resurrection of the dire wolf, a species that went extinct over 12,000 years ago. A Dallas-based biotech company, Colossal Biosciences, is behind the project and Walter Isaacson speaks to its co-founder, Harvard University geneticist George Church.

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