PERSON DIRECTORY
Ben Lamm
Ben Lamm appears in 3 indexed conversations across Moonshots, Sourcery. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
Colossal’s woolly mice validated mammoth-editing in 30 days, with 100% healthy births and predicted phenotypes.With $635M raised, its screwworm solution could eradicate the problem in six to seven months versus $1.5B in taxpayer spending over eight years, pending permits.Astromec uses evolutionary-genomics AI for drug discovery; another extinct species may arrive within 12 months, but the target remains undisclosed.
AI + Synthetic Biology: The Most Transformative Technology in Human History | Ben Lamm (Colossal)
Colossal uses de-extinction as a proving ground for an AI-enabled synthetic-biology platform, growing to 260 scientists and a reported $10 billion valuation in four years.Spinouts such as Breaking and a UAE-backed animal biovault show how platform discoveries could become commercial and sovereign infrastructure businesses.Artificial wombs remain the scaling unlock but all three projects “don’t work yet,” leaving edit efficiency, cloning economics, regulation, and gene-drive containment as material milestones.
Why This Billionaire Is Bringing Back the Dire Wolf, Woolly Mammoth & More w/ Ben Lamm & Salim | 165
Ben LammSalim IsmailPeter Diamandis
Colossal’s dire-wolf launch is a platform proof: 20 edits, including 15 ancient variants, produced healthy animals expressing phenotypes driven by genes lost for 12,000 years.Its integrated software-biology stack, artificial-womb program, and prospective technology, nature-credit, and government-service businesses create multiple catalysts, while execution, governance, and taxonomy remain material risks.