Picture this: snow dusts the ground of a vast plain. Mountains rise in the distance, powerful winds sweep chilly air from the ...

The woolly mammoth once played a vital role in maintaining ... The science is clear: Asian elephants share 99.6% of their DNA with woolly mammoths. While the 0.4% difference might seem small ...

A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse ... the genes responsible for the traits that separate the mammoth from the Asian elephant—its close evolutionary relation—editing an elephant ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

"We're not taking mammoth DNA and plugging in the holes, we're trying to engineer the lost genes from mammoths into Asian elephants." Fascinatingly, Asian elephants are closely related to woolly ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

The company plans to rewrite 85 genes from modern Asian elephant DNA in order to match ancient woolly mammoth DNA — the same process it used for the dire wolves. So far, Time Magazine reported ...

Colossal’s woolly mammoth patent application, with its descriptions of modified cells and animals, represents “the current standard in biotech cases,” says Cassie Edgar, a partner at the law firm ...

Colossal wants to do for the dodo, Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth what it’s done for ... a nearly two-year gestation period in a surrogate elephant — doesn’t mean we should credit ...

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.