Lars Kenseth

“As opposed to the precautionary principle, which says do nothing because you don’t know what the unknown consequences are, we say, use cautionary vigilance with transparency and responsibility,” Phelan told me. By biting off only one small chunk of technological risk at a time in the hope of creating a better future, this approach allows Phelan and Brand to iteratively test what is going right and wrong so that they can adapt their projects along the way.”
― Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

“Later, back in the lab, Roy Weber, a professor in the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, spins the liquid in a vial to run tests on it, allowing him to see that the dark liquid was indeed full of red blood cells. But they had all broken open and released their hemoglobin—the molecule that carries oxygen in blood—out into the slurry.”
― Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

“When a species goes extinct, the role it once played in its ecosystem—as a fertilizer, forest disturber, predator, and so on—vanishes along with it.”
― Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

“Church also figured out how to encode an HTML version of a book, one he’d cowritten, in a single drop of DNA,”
― Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction