Colossal Biosciences announces the Colossal Woolly Mouse, a step toward resurrecting woolly mammoths by engineering mice with mammoth-like cold adaptations.

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Colossal Biosciences, a startup trying to bring the prehistoric mammoth back from extinction, said it has achieved a first ...

Colossal Biosciences leaders say the fluffy, golden-haired mice help validate their technique to “de-extinct” species, but ...

Learn how one company’s effort to bring back the Ice Age creature from extinction takes a key first step.

Using CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing tool, they targeted ten genes in mice associated with traits like hair length, texture, ...

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is ...

Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it has simultaneously edited seven genes in mice embryos to create mice with long ...

However, by comparing datasets of mammoth and elephant genomes, the team identified that mammoths lost the function of one of these genes. The researchers also introduced mutations into two of the ...

The animals, the first to have been created by Colossal Biosciences, have fluffy coats and curly whiskers.

The team at genetics and biotech firm Colossal Biosciences have imbued rodents with thicker, woolly coats, golden fur and other cold-climate adaptations, all of which are key characteristics of the ...