In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

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

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

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Scientists at the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences have taken a small step towards their goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth: they've created the woolly mouse ...

Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some of the key traits of mammoths, including their thick ...

The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation of the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab-engineered rodents have seven genes that have been ...

Biotech company Colossal, which is attempting to bring back the woolly mammoth, has reached a milestone − and a very cute one at that: the woolly mouse. The Colossal Woolly Mouse, born in ...

Then, they cut and paste mammoth genes into elephant DNA, and raise the engineered cells in a surrogate, which leads to a mammoth calf. Pictured is Colossal's "woolly mouse" next to a wild-type mouse.

"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.