Cloned dunnart cells can be used to create an embryo and an animal. Adding genes for cold resistance and thick red hair could be used to turn Asian elephants into woolly mammoths.

Sara

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There are no resurrected animals yet. A high-tech combination of DNA technology, stem-cell research, gene editing, and artificial wombs could lead to the resurrection of lost species, but also to the preservation of those.

She worked for a software company, tried her hand at lab research, and worked in a hospital. She thinks it's a good fit. She was a big fan of Discovery Channel and National Geographic. She loves animals.

Colossal is as much a film as it is a science. Its financial backers include Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker, and its ideas originate in the laboratory of George Church, who has been promoting mammoth resurrection in the media since 2013.

Part communication, part science, and part futurism is what Ord is tasked with. If the company succeeds in re-creating the thylacine, what would it look like? Colossal could turn a profit if it were to sell tickets.