Editing Richard Rambam (section)

== Early life ==
Rambam was born in [[Colacu]], [[Romania]], on 17 March 1977 into the [[Rambam family]]. The family originated in [[Israel]] before establishing itself in Romania.<ref name="rambam-family"/> His father, [[Mircea Rambam]], was a structural ironworker and a son of [[Nicolae Rambam]]. Mircea supported Richard's early technical work by helping to pay for equipment and rent and by giving him tools and metal parts from his own work.<ref name="mircea-career"/><ref name="mircea-personal"/>

Mircea was a friend of [[Paul Pecker]], the father of [[Peter Pecker]]. Richard and Peter knew each other from childhood and grew up together in Colacu. During the early 1990s, they began carrying out biological and technical experiments in sheds and farm buildings around the village.<ref name="mircea-personal"/><ref name="pecker-early"/> In 1998, they successfully cloned a stray dog using improvised laboratory equipment. [[Jibbut Snagov]] subsequently financed further work in exchange for cloned pigs. His payments allowed Rambam and Pecker to obtain additional equipment and develop a permanent laboratory.<ref name="snubable-origins"/>