Experts have disabled the myostatin gene in fish, which limits the increase in muscle mass. According to the calculations of ...

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, ...

US start-up Colossal Biosciences says it is on track to produce a woolly mammoth calf born to a surrogate elephant mother by ...

Researchers claim breakthrough in step toward making mammoths 'de-extinct' US scientists have created a "woolly" mouse by ...

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 ...

Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have achieved a milestone to resurrecting the woolly mammoth: laboratory mice with thick, ...

“Colossal’s team made a number of genetic changes known as “knock outs” in lab mice that are already known to produce longer, thicker, wavier — or woollier — coats in mice. They also made a change ...

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

After an intense study of the mammoth's genetic code, scientists have engineered 'woolly' mice with altered fur thickness, ...