"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 a mammoth,” Lamm tells TIME. “[It] proves our end-to-end pipeline ...

Colossal Biosciences genetically engineered a ‘woolly mouse’ with mammoth traits. The milestone could inform human gene ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

In a handful of days, it seems like everyone is suddenly smitten with what Colossal’s dubbed “woolly ... work,” Lamm says. “We think that if it solves the functional aspects of a mammoth ...

The company first unveiled its plan to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth ... all going to work out for good in the end. DD: So, any plans to get into the pet business with a line of woolly ...

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 ...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger — the woolly ... going to work," Shapiro told NPR in an interview. The company says ...

You've heard of the woolly ... the woolly mammoth. NPR's Rob Stein takes us to the lab where it all happened. Interested in more biotech stories? Let us know by dropping a line to [email protected].

Colossal, cofounded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021, has pledged, to much fanfare, to bring woolly mammoths (“cold-tolerant elephant mammoth hybrids,” actually ...

It's been 4,000 years since the woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, but could this extinct species make a comeback? Some scientists in Texas say they're working on it and they're going to use mice to ...

The company’s aim is to genetically modify Asian elephants to express woolly mammoth traits; the mice offered a comparatively easier way to test the impact of the proposed tweaks. But some ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...