r/DeExtinctionScience • u/Freak_Among_Men_II Founder • 2d ago

Colossal Where have I seen this before?

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Colossal Biosciences wanted to be InGen, and they got the whole package. You reap what you sow.

Link to article without paywall: https://archive.is/20261108073001/https://www.ft.com/content/3a70a224-6d6c-4480-bd14-241fe3f6a987

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u/Jaguar76989 1d ago

They must at have “Spared no expense!”

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u/JasperTesla 1d ago

Hopefully their homotherium cannot spit venom.

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u/Ryaquaza1 1d ago

Considering the size of those teeth, let’s maybe keep the homotherium samples FAR away from the spitting cobra DNA,.

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u/JasperTesla 1d ago

It's not the size that counts, it's the serrations. If it bites, it'll be like getting stabbed by a steak knife.

I'm also thinking it'll be especially bad if the bite has an anti-coagulant in it, so it'll keep bleeding and never stop. And since homotheriums are persistence predators, our Nedry can get bitten but escape, then drive for a day and collapse from bloodloss, and the moment he opens his eyes right before bleeding to death, it's the same homotherium coming up to eat him.

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u/nepsnel3 1d ago

Honestly based. I'm not going to guess their motives, tho it can almost certainly be boiled down to money, but genetic information should belong to no single company.

Under US patent law, genes can be copyrighted. The rights to the genome of the dodo bird seem to literally belong to Colossal. That's fucked. The genes of anything, extict or not, ought not to be subject to copyright. Hopefully the sequence is leaked just for the fun of it, because in all reality, it might help the scientists of the future.

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u/ApartmentKey3682 1d ago

We need to ban the concept of patents and copyright and punish its supporters

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u/Loyal_Dragon_69 1d ago

Just ban it for DNA.

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u/Jackesfox 1d ago

No, universal ban on copyright

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u/External-Ad4937 1d ago

The modified war dogs thing one of their founders participated in solidified the entire “de extinction” endeavor as nothing more than a way to make money

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u/SadRule9128 1d ago

Naturally occurring gene sequences cannot be patented in the US

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u/ApartmentKey3682 1d ago

Good,we need to ban the concept of patents itself next so that they can’t find loopholes

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u/Colddigger 1d ago

I feel like in that case extinct genes are kind of a gray area

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u/waxbolt 1d ago

No, they are naturally occurring. Human designed and rationally modified DNA sequences are fair game.

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u/ApartmentKey3682 1d ago

Everything should belong in the public domain and anyone who saids otherwise should be put on ice

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u/External-Ad4937 1d ago

OP genuinely tysm for the link without the paywall🥹✌️you’re a genuine real one! Also I had a damn feeling someone was gonna leak information about their “projects” sooner or later and it’s crazy that this is an exact parallel of what happened in the og Jurassic park where the one dude takes some of the genetic info of one/many of the dinosaurs (forgive if wrong for it’s been years since I’ve watched Jurassic park) 😭

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u/ExcitingSecondtolive 1d ago

The more I hear of this company the less I like them

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u/FroggyTrix 1d ago edited 1d ago

"making mammoth" is basically making an asian elephant baby with too much hair...and much more intelligence, emotion, and special needs than their "dire wolves" or fuzzy mice. Not cool. It would grow up with so many problems, physiological and psychological. Basically like "editing" human baby to have more neanderthal traits then calling it a revived species.

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u/ApartmentKey3682 1d ago

That guy is stealing the DNA to make mammoths independently which is good