Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro

“but I get asked about peptides like every five minutes these days and not the peptides of the GLP sort. But what's happened in the health space is that the GLP drugs have destigmatized and taken away needle phobia by putting the, it's still a needle, but it's on a pen.”

“It wasn't really the thing about taking the peptide that may or may not have enough data. There are a lot of data on the GLPs, but it really was the delivery method. We saw this with computers, right? They were big clunky things. You had everyone had to use the same one. Then all of a sudden you turn it into a phone that's also a camera.”

“Right. You know, it could also come, I've thought about this a lot. My last book is called Life as We Made It. And it's all about how we've been messing with the species that we encounter for as long as we exist. In the last chapter, I think about how we might turn our editing technology on ourselves, really asking the question: what is it that will push us over that edge, right?”

“was better in the past, is because A, most people never experienced that. They have no concept. I think there's a great book that I had to read years ago called The Good Old Days, They Were Terrible, but we hear the good old days and you hear about all like the dysentery, the lack of antibiotics.”