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Britt Wray
“I think there’s a huge misconception about how much science is actually going on. In the back corner of George Church’s lab [at Harvard] they have a few people who are using a tiny amount of resources that are available to them to attempt to swap out genes in elephant cells which are growing in culture in a dish in a lab. I have a student who’s trying to convince me that it’s a good idea to bring passenger pigeons back to life. There’s a group in Australia who are thinking about the gastric-brooding frog but are stuck because they can’t cause the cells to actually grow up. There’s a group in New Zealand that is thinking about bringing a Moa [an extinct bird] back to life and are working on sequencing the moa genome, which is not de-extinction, in itself. There’s a Spanish group that’s thinking about the bucardo [a subspecies of Spanish ibex that went extinct in 2000], and there’s the backbreeding group for the aurochs [an extinct species of wild cattle] in Holland. That’s it. That’s everything that’s going on in the world right now.”
Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

Britt Wray
“The bull the testicles came from was named Yasufuku, a prized sire whose offspring grew into beautiful bovine specimens that could be farmed for their marbled Wagyu beef.”
Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

Britt Wray
“We still tend to speak of Neanderthals as though they’re somehow alien from us, even though many of our genomes show that they’re literally a part of us. To be a species is a murky thing. Many of us are mutts already, but de-extinction could multiply the spectrum of hybridity in some startling ways.”
Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

Vladimir Nabokov
“An electric milk van on fat tires rolling creamily.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

Britt Wray
“He tells me that dealing with ancient DNA “is like taking the entire collection of Encyclopedia Britannica, ripping it up into two-letter pieces, scrambling it all up, and then having some grad student put it back together without coffee.”
Britt Wray, Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

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