Funding
Colossal, the US biotech that wants to use DNA to bring the dodo and Tassie tiger back from extinction, donated $2.3 million to the University of Melbourne
US genetic engineering and biosciences startup Colossal has donated US$1.5 million (A$2.3m) to the University of Melbourne to support Australian avian conservation genomics. The funding has come from the Colossal Foundation. Colossal was founded software entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021 and went on to raise more than US$225m in venture funding.… Read more »
