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Ben Lamm appeared on The Jordan Harbinger Show to discuss his work and company, making connections to Michael Crichton's famous novel Jurassic Park. Throughout the conversation, Lamm noted that while people often compare modern genetic engineering efforts to the methods portrayed in the book and film, his team is not literally extracting ancient DNA from amber and supplementing gaps with frog DNA. Instead, Lamm argued that Crichton's book actually drew inspiration from the pioneering research of his own co-founder, George Church, whom Lamm described as a giant in the field of DNA and genetic engineering. Lamm humorously suggested that Church should be receiving royalties given how much the seminal story parallels Church's early scientific endeavors, such as work on yeast. Furthermore, Lamm acknowledged that Jurassic Park performed a valuable service by educating the wider public about the possibilities and ethical questions surrounding genetic engineering, even if his own organization approaches de-extinction and biology with methods he considers to be distinctly more sophisticated and technically advanced than the fictional park depicted by Crichton.