The term de-extinction is inaccurate, but conservation is still the best way to achieve its stated goals. We need to save the ...

Ben Lamm: It really wasn’t my idea. My co-founder is George Church, who is arguably the father of synthetic biology. And he had been working for years to understand the mammoth genome. All of ...

Colossal Biosciences has taken a massive step forward in its quest to revive the woolly mammoth by creating a genetically engineered woolly mouse. The new offshoot of the species looks just like ...

This week, the world met the woolly “mammouse”—a genetically engineered mouse with woolly mammoth hair. The scientists at Colossal Biosciences who created it think it’s a promising step ...

Scientists began with mice to see if the process works before possibly moving on to edit embryos of Asian elephants, the woolly mammoth's closest living relative.

Woolly mammoths were vital to early humans, shaping ecosystems and survival on the Mammoth Steppe. Their rise and extinction ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known wooly mammoth fossil in North America and uncovered its genetic secrets, according to a new study. The 216,000-year-old tooth, found along the Old Crow ...

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To create the woolly mouse, scientists analyzed the genetic instructions, or genomes, of 121 mammoth and elephant samples to identify genes that may have given woolly mammoths some of their ...