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

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...

A gene therapy to correct a mutation that causes maple syrup urine disease prevented newborn death and normalized growth in a calf as well as in mice.

"The woolly mouse project doesn't bring us any closer to a mammoth, but it does validate the work we are doing on the path to ...

Gene regulation underpins nearly every biological process—from cell development to responses to environmental changes, and ...

Could it also give us better tomatoes, a hybrid woolly mammoth-elephant that could help save Arctic forests, and perhaps even ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

The authors have demonstrated the use of adenine base editors delivered via adeno-associated viruses to introduce edits in the mitochondrial genome. The manuscript describes the methodology well, and ...

Scientists at the "de-extinction" startup Colossal Biosciences studied mammoth DNA to recreate their woolly hair in lab mice.

Artificial intelligence is making waves across industries, but its impact is higher in some sectors than others. Medicine and other sciences stand to gain much from this technology, thanks to their ...

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