The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

Colossal Biosciences caught our imagination – and elicited memories of "Jurassic Park" – when the Dallas-based biotech company announced back in 2021 it would use cutting-edge genetics editing ...

More than one million species are threatened with extinction, according to the United Nations. “Right now, it’s causing ecological effects,” says Ben Lamm, CEO and co-founder of Colossal Biosciences. ...

Colossal Biosciences engineered mice with long, woolly hair by editing seven genes. Scientists see potential for conservation but doubt true "de-extinction." The company may apply the technique to ...

Blurry footage of what looks quite a bit like a woolly mammoth crossing a body of water in Siberia has caused a stir amongst viewers across the web, many of whom either insist it's hoax or think it's ...

Could we walk among the woolly mammoth once again? Scientists are working on just that, and it could happen quite soon. Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company who wants to make seeing the Tasmanian ...

Resurrecting extinct creatures — it may sound like science fiction. Or maybe it reminds you of a familiar ’90s flick? While the fictitious “Jurassic Park” notably does not have a picture-perfect ...

In the early 1990s, Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg brought the concept of de-extinction to the masses with Jurassic Park. Today, the franchise lives on with this summer's Jurassic World Rebirth ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based company, genetically engineered a woolly mouse, marking an achievement toward its goal of resurrecting extinct species like the woolly mammoth. The woolly mouse is ...

“I’m excited,” Beth Shapiro, Colossal’s chief science officer, told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview in March. She described the mouse as “really our first validation” that the company can ...

For about seven minutes in 2003, scientists reversed extinction. The resurrected lineage was the Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica), and the last known member of the subspecies, a female named ...