The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the first line of defense for the United States, has recently developed a new interest in natural history. A report in News week said Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, United States, that is working to save the woolly mammoth from extinction, has received funding from the CIA, despite the agency not typically being known for dealing with extinct creatures.
According to the reports, Peter Thiel, Tony Robbins, Paris Hilton and Winklevoss Capital are a few more investors in the company.
According to the interception, Colossal’s new investor, In-Q-Tel, is registered as a non-profit venture capital organization sponsored by the agency. The company has recently shown an interest in biotechnology and DNA sequencing.
“Biotechnology and the broader bioeconomy are critical to the further development of humanity. It is important for all facets of our government to develop them and understand what is possible,” said Colossal co-founder Ben Lamm. The interception.
Mammoths were huge, hairy elephant-like creatures that existed between 5 million and 4,000 years ago and became extinct with the retreat of the Ice Age glaciers, about the same time the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built.
News week said they constantly capture the imagination of individuals seeking to revive extinct species, especially since scientists were able to decode the mammoth genome using recovered DNA from mummified bones.
Using CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing, researchers aim to bring extinct creatures such as mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back to life.
According to Colossal, reclaiming the mammoth would help slow the melting of Arctic permafrost, stopping emissions of greenhouse gases trapped there. It would also help save today’s elephants from extinction.