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Beth Shapiro"It feels to me that a mammoth is a long way in the future."
Jeremy Austin"Mammoth de-extinction is more about media attention for the scientists and less about doing serious science."
Joseph Frederickson"Is this [the restoration of woolly mammoths] going to happen anytime soon? The answer is absolutely not."Sep 14, 2021
Eriona Hysolli"That timeline [2028 for the birth of the first mammoth calves] hasn't changed."
Ben Mezrich"The stuff in "Jurassic Park" is now possible."
George Church"Our goal is to make a cold-resistant elephant, but it is going to look and behave like a mammoth."
Ben Lamm"We are 100 percent confident [we can bring back] the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo, and the mammoth."
Colossal Biosciences Inc."Our first mammoth calves will be born in 2028."
Mary Beth Griggs"[N]o one is actually going to bring mammoths back."
George Church"I think the first engineered elephant will be the major milestone and that may be consistent with Ben's (Lamm) prediction of six years from 2021."
Ben Lamm"We have set a date of late 2028 for our first mammoth and we are on track."
Brian Klaas"In 2028, if all goes according to plan, a six-foot-five narcoleptic scientist with a bushy white beard will resurrect the first living woolly mammoth in 4,000 years."
Jack Tseng"I think it's [bringing back woolly mammoth] definitely within the technology."
Jack Tseng"Scientifically, they're not bringing back the woolly mammoth, it's actually like creating a genetically modified elephant."
George Church"We are not trying to make mammoths."
Ben Lamm"It's a realistic goal [bringing back wolly mammoth by 2028] based on where we are today."
Ben Lamm"We have set a date of late 2028 for our first [woolly] mammoth."
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