A Texas biotech startup is using gene editing to bring back the mammoth and other extinct species. From the shaggy woolly mammoth to the long-lost Steller’s sea cow, Colossal Biosciences is developing ...

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step toward their ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago, during the last ice age. But for now, ...

In the early 1990s, Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg brought the concept of de-extinction to the masses with Jurassic Park. Today, the franchise lives on with this summer's Jurassic World Rebirth ...

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech company announced back in 2021 it would use cutting-edge genetics editing ...

Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female ...

(CNN) — It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically modified ...

DALLAS — Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday the birth of the “Colossal Woolly Mouse,” genetically engineered mice that express certain mammoth traits related to cold-weather adaptation. The litter ...

In the final moments of Yuka the woolly mammoth’s life, he may have been trying to outsprint a cave lion. Yuka’s hind legs bear scratches — and in his muscle tissue, scientists have detected molecular ...

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