Ben Lamm becomes famous thanks to science: his company Colossal Biosciences has brought back the extinct dire wolves
9 april 2025 в 00:37
Ben Lamm becomes known for his involvement in science, but this entrepreneur, whose fortune is at the billion-dollar level, has been in business for quite some time. Now, with his company Colossal Biosciences successfully bringing back dire wolf directors to life, Lamm is becoming a hero of scientific development.
«This huge milestone is the first of many examples demonstrating that our de-extinction technology works from start to finish», - Lamm said in a statement published in April 2025. «Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and created healthy dire wolf pups. It was once said: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Today, our team can show some of that magic they work on and its broader impact on nature conservation».
Learn more about Lamm, his career, and his fortune below.
Lamm is an entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Colossal Biosciences with Dr. George Church. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Lamm provided funding to help Colossal take off after they announced their desire to bring back the woolly mammoth.
In addition to Colossal, Lamm also co-founded a software spin-off company called Form Bio. Later, he launched a startup called Breaking, which focused on plastic decomposition and synthetic biology.
According to Forbes in 2025, Lamm’s fortune is $ 3.7 billion.
Colossal is an engineering and biotechnology company based in Texas that aims to bring animals back to life. Among the team’s most prominent goals are to revive the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, northern white rhinoceros, and dodo.
As the woolly mammoth is one of Colossal’s largest projects, the company successfully tested its return through mice. The genetically modified mice are known as «woolly mice».
«The Colossal woolly mouse is a breakthrough in our de-extinction mission», - Lamm said in a previous statement, according to TIME. «By connecting several cold-resistant traits from mammoth evolutionary pathways to a living model species, we have demonstrated our ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that nature created millions of years ago».
Lamm explained that while the woolly mouse «does not bring us closer to the mammoth», - it «confirms the work we are doing on the path to the mammoth».
«[This] proves our de-extinction technology from start to finish», - Lamm added. «We started this project in September, and we had our first mice in October, showing that it works — and works effectively»
«This huge milestone is the first of many examples demonstrating that our de-extinction technology works from start to finish», - Lamm said in a statement published in April 2025. «Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull and created healthy dire wolf pups. It was once said: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' Today, our team can show some of that magic they work on and its broader impact on nature conservation».
Learn more about Lamm, his career, and his fortune below.
Lamm is an entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Colossal Biosciences with Dr. George Church. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Lamm provided funding to help Colossal take off after they announced their desire to bring back the woolly mammoth.
In addition to Colossal, Lamm also co-founded a software spin-off company called Form Bio. Later, he launched a startup called Breaking, which focused on plastic decomposition and synthetic biology.
According to Forbes in 2025, Lamm’s fortune is $ 3.7 billion.
Colossal is an engineering and biotechnology company based in Texas that aims to bring animals back to life. Among the team’s most prominent goals are to revive the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, northern white rhinoceros, and dodo.
As the woolly mammoth is one of Colossal’s largest projects, the company successfully tested its return through mice. The genetically modified mice are known as «woolly mice».
«The Colossal woolly mouse is a breakthrough in our de-extinction mission», - Lamm said in a previous statement, according to TIME. «By connecting several cold-resistant traits from mammoth evolutionary pathways to a living model species, we have demonstrated our ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that nature created millions of years ago».
Lamm explained that while the woolly mouse «does not bring us closer to the mammoth», - it «confirms the work we are doing on the path to the mammoth».
«[This] proves our de-extinction technology from start to finish», - Lamm added. «We started this project in September, and we had our first mice in October, showing that it works — and works effectively»
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