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

Take the latest discovery by scientists at Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, Texas, who recently bred “woolly mice.” How cool! Although not everyone is jazzed about the new breed of mice and it’s since ...

It’s one small step for mice, one giant leap for mammoth-kind. Scientists endeavoring to “de-extinct” woolly mammoths through genetic modification have taken a meaningful step toward ...

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 ...

Although scientists say the woolly mouse project won’t go on indefinitely, don’t worry – there’s already people from the team waiting to adopt them Susan Young is a reporter for PEOPLE.

Once a species winks out, it survives only in memory and the fossil record. When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton ...

A new billionaire from efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth: “What we’re excited about is that we are solving hard problems,” said Colossal Biosciences' cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm.

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 ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to revive ...

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly ...

With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically modified rodent embodies several woolly mammoth-like traits, according to ...

Twenty years later and the bioengineering company Colossal Biosciences has set its sights on resurrecting the legendary woolly mammoth. But before that, they’ve delivered the most adorable ...