00:00So welcome officially to Colossal Labs.
00:04This is the most advanced genetics lab, you know, arguably in the world,
00:07and, you know, we definitely spare no expense in the process.
00:10This is the real Jurassic Park, isn't it?
00:12I think it's Jurassic Park with a conservation focus.
00:17You don't see that every day.
00:19Or ever.
00:21What is it like, you know, to be the steward of, like, this next chapter of something that means so much to so many people?
00:27Jurassic Park inspired so many scientists in this building, in this lab, you know, saw that movie growing up and thought science is cool, genetics is cool.
00:39The second you're stood, you know, in the middle of Thailand, holding a camera, you know, there's going to be a dinosaur over there, and Scarlett Johansson.
00:47There's something about it that just feels like, you know, this is what I grew up thinking the world would be.
00:52When you're a kid, you're promised so much through science fiction and films.
00:56And you're like, where's my jetpack?
00:58We're not living on the moon.
00:59Yeah.
01:00Where's my vacation to Venus?
01:01Yeah.
01:02And I feel like genetically engineering an extinct animal felt like it was one of those.
01:07Yeah.
01:07Your choice was, well, let's change the world, right, and make it happen.
01:12Woo!
01:12So when we were in the edit of Jurassic World Rebirth, front page news happened around the whole world about the de-extinction of the dire wolf, which is basically your life's work slightly, right?
01:26It created this, like, insane excitement around the world for not just dire wolves, but also for wolf conservation and everything.
01:35And it was amazing to see the reaction in terms of just, like, this major scientific achievement that we were all sharing together.
01:42We're losing species at such an insane rate that being able to at least back them up and protect them while developing technologies for de-extinction is just a redundancy plan for conservation.
01:54In our movie, the idea is the characters are going to this island to get these DNA samples from the world's largest dinosaurs.
02:01It can help, like, cure heart disease, so that's not that far-fetched.
02:04There's hidden cures and hidden data in all these different species that we're losing, so it's definitely not that far-fetched.
02:11You're really de-extincting species.
02:13Like, even this behind us, right, this is mammoth in ice.
02:15So Colossal is arguably the number one genetic engineering company in the world.
02:20People think that this is what we do.
02:22They just go out to Siberia and get massive frozen mammoths and, like, resuscitate them or something, right?
02:27And as we go this way, you'll learn a little bit about the process.
02:30We actually use a combination of bones and teeth that we drill into.
02:34So say you've got all those samples, right?
02:35You use it to compare to an existing species?
02:37Exactly.
02:38You identify the most important genes of its closest living relatives.
02:42We want to resurrect the core phenotypes or physical attributes, like what made a mammoth a mammoth.
02:46So you're looking at mammoth hairs growing from the edits that we've put into Asian elephant tissue,
02:52and you can actually grow specific hair types.
02:56Your film's about dinosaurs, right?
02:58Right.
02:58Is that a possibility?
02:59Is there a path towards it?
03:00You can't get dino DNA.
03:02Amber, believe it or not, it's very porous.
03:04It doesn't hold DNA.
03:06But if you took advanced genetic engineering, advanced computational models,
03:10you had an avian genomics group to trait engineering, you created synthetic eggs.
03:16I think you'll have dinosaur equivalents in the next hundred years using these tools,
03:20just a more advanced version of these tools.
03:23You're a very impressive nerd, Henry.
03:25If you could bring back any dinosaur, what would you bring back?
03:29The one that's going to get all the tourists is going to be the T-Rex.
03:32Yeah.
03:32It's also going to go very wrong.
03:36Might well escape.
03:40It'll work out in the end.
03:42Would make a really cool movie.
03:43Over some time period, whether that's five years or 20 years, we at Colossal will be able
03:50to engineer nearly anything.
03:52I think the genetic engineering, computational analysis, and the access to compute and more
03:57and more compute will give us the ability to truly create new forms of life.
04:02But that doesn't mean we should.
04:03Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think
04:06if they should.
04:07Our goal is to create de-extinction, to build technologies that can help human health care.
04:13If we get this DNA, millions of lots are saved.
04:16As well as subsidize all those technologies for conservation.
04:20If we can build a company that builds technologies to advance species preservation, then I think
04:26we have done our job.
04:27And I do advise you to start building some 10,000 volt fences just to be on the safe side.
04:33Just to be on the safe side.
04:37Just to be on the safe side.
04:38Just to be on the safe side.
04:38S Entscheidung for the Ass 1920s
04:41Yes.
04:42It does not accept that see happening in the safe space.
04:45If you are a person who has to define life, you can get it.
04:50Listen to me.
04:50Listen, Ben!
04:52Feel good.
04:55Go ahead.
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