Colossal Biosciences cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm is worth $3.7 billion following the company's recent fundraise at an ...

What killed the last woolly mammoths? What killed the last woolly mammoths? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon. Should they be? Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be coming soon.

So far, Colossal Biosciences has acquired more than 60 partial woolly mammoth genomes, which it will use to edit elephant ...

For the woolly mammoth, scientists analyze DNA recovered from frozen remains to identify the genetic differences between the mammoth and its closest living relative, the Asian elephant.

Colossal is a firm focused on bioscience and the de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird.

But on the whole, myoglobin in woolly mammoths and Asian elephants has the same DNA sequence, Dalén said. "As far as we can see, no mammoth meatballs have been created. Rather, it's [Asian ...

So what does the woolly mammoth have to do with it? Back to the elephant—or rather, mammoth—in the room. What does resurrecting a giant herbivore do for biodiversity? That’s why Colossal ...

According to one critic, Colossal will end up creating more of a “hairy elephant” than a true woolly mammoth. Lamm says the company has never claimed its creatures would be an “identical ...

With this data, the team assembled the first 3D reconstruction of the woolly mammoth’s genome, which had 28 chromosomes; the order of genes was very similar to that of the Asian elephant. Then, upon ...

These behemoth creatures helped the grass ... to introduce the woolly-mammoth gene to Asian elephant cells and manage to create elephant-mammoth hybrids, these would be able to survive steppe ...