THE scientists plotting the return of the great Woolly Mammoth have successfully used gene editing technology to create a new Woolly Mouse. The extraordinary, palm-sized creature has had its DNA ...

Recent experiments to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth have raised questions about whether investors are being shortsighted in putting their money in such ‘sci-fi-esque' ventures ...

While the woolly mouse is a step towards the team's lofty goal, it doesn't take a geneticist to see there's a big difference between small rodents with short life cycles and the huge, long-living ...

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.

Scientists have successfully created genetically modified mice with woolly mammoth traits, a significant step in de-extinction efforts. Colossal Biosciences aims to use similar techniques to ...

Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to revive the woolly mammoth and later the dodo bird. Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals ...

with a warm coat taken from the genes of the extinct woolly mammoth. Dallas and Boston-based Colossal Biosciences is has engineered key mammoth-like traits into the mice so they can adapt to life ...

The genetically modified rodents, dubbed "woolly mice", were engineered to grow long and dense fur which resembles the coat of a mammoth. According to Colossal Biosciences, the study, which has ...

Dallas-based Colossal says it is one step closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth. Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it had created the Colossal woolly mouse, genetically engineered ...

A new billionaire from efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth: “What we’re excited about is that we are solving hard problems,” said Colossal Biosciences' cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm.

Using high-tech genetic engineering, they aim to bring back distinguishing features of extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth—while not actually bringing the species itself back to life.

The Colossal Woolly Mouse, created by Colossal Biosciences, expresses multiple mammoth-identified traits relevant to cold adaptation and provides a platform for validation of genome engineering ...