Company creates 'woolly mouse' in quest to bring back mammoths. Turns out, it's really cute.
Scientists at Colossal Biosciences have achieved a milestone to resurrecting the woolly mammoth: laboratory mice with thick, ...
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Woolly mice are a first step to resurrecting mammoths, but there's a very long way to go
They genetically modified the DNA of mice to give them mammoth-like traits in their hair shape, color and length. By testing ...
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Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a ‘Woolly Mouse’
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...
“Wooly mice” a test run for mammoth gene editing
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is ...
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Why the Woolly Mammoth Startup Felt It Needed to Hire a Hollywood Director
A while back, Thomas Tull, billionaire Hollywood mogul turned venture capitalist, invited a group of friends to a rodeo in ...
Mammoth De-Extinction a 'Step Closer' As Geneticists Create Woolly Mouse
The team at genetics and biotech firm Colossal Biosciences have imbued rodents with thicker, woolly coats, golden fur and ...
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Meet the world's first woolly MOUSE: Scientists genetically engineer rodents with thick, fluffy coats - and say it could pave the way for the de-extinction of the mammoth
Colossal Biosciences has revealed the world's first 'woolly mice', after engineering rodents to grow thick, warm coats using mammoth DNA. While they might not be scary enough to star in the next ...
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De-extinction scientists say these gene-edited ‘woolly mice’ are a step toward woolly mammoths
Woolly mammoth DNA has been retrieved from freeze-dried remains of animals that are tens of thousands of years old. Shapiro and her colleagues plan to eventually make changes to the genomes of ...
How Jurassic Park Made Woolly Mice Possible (and Vice Versa)
Exclusive: Colossal CEO Ben Lamm considers the similarities between their efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth with Michael Crichton’s worst fears in Jurassic Park.
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Colossal Biosciences CEO Dissects the $10B Startup’s Effort to Bring Back Extinct Animals: Interview
Bringing the woolly mammoth back to life is no easy task. But for Ben Lamm, CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the stress of the ...
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Olga Dudchenko's genomics work revealed why woolly mammoths were so woolly
The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...