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Colossal Biosciences claimed to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf. The canid species has been extinct for over 10,000 years ...
While the wolves have stirred scientific debate, Colossal remains undeterred. The company says Khaleesi, Romulus, and Remus ...
Colossal's de-extinction process involved a sophisticated fusion of ancient DNA analysis, CRISPR gene editing, and ...
In a scientific achievement that reads like science fiction made real, Colossal Biosciences has accomplished what many ...
Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...
We’ll have cells that we can just directly clone from to bring back animals if they go extinct in the future.” While it’s unlikely we’ll see a live Thylacine in the next five years ...
"If you edit that 0.01 percent of their code that's different then you turn that living dunnart cell into a Tasmanian tiger." Once this is completed a 'standard cloning process' similar to what ...
That's because the dire wolf project edited 15 genes, while the Tasmanian tiger project aims to make "hundreds of thousands of edits". Just like the dire wolf, you can't clone a thylacine but Dr ...
Future targets for “de-extinction” include the dodo, Tasmanian tiger, and woolly mammoth.
Tasmanian tiger, and dodo. While those efforts are ongoing, Colossal has already used techniques developed in the dire wolf project to clone litters of endangered red wolves. However, ethical and ...