What It's Like to Run the Fast-Moving Company Aiming to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

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A US company claims to be resurrecting extinct species, such as the mammoth and the dodo. "A smokescreen," denounce researchers, highlighting the scientific limitations and ethical transgressions of these experiments. "These scientists are playing at being sorcerer's apprentices," protests Laurence Raineau, a lecturer in sociology at the Sorbonne. Like many scientists, she advocates against the crazy "de-extinction" project led by Colossal Biosc…