L ast month, the world looked on with awe as Colossal Biosciences revealed they had de-extincted the dire wolf. Dire wolves ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Colossal made only 20 edits. That is nowhere near enough to approach actual dire wolf biology. It should be acknowledged that, out of the several million genetic differences that distinguish gray ...

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

Zoologist Philip Seddon from the University of Otago in New Zealand explained the animals are "genetically modified grey ...

The dire wolf project is a similar exercise in technological potential ... This work also expands the boundaries of what synthetic biology can do. The ability to dial specific traits in or out of a ...

The ability to edit multiple genes in living, viable animals is a remarkable feat, but tweaking a few genes in modern gray wolves (out of 19,000 or so) does not count as “bringing back” an extinct ...

Today, our team gets to unveil some of the magic they are working on and its broader impact on conservation,' Colossal ...

Colossal says it’s on track to have woolly mammoths, which went extinct around 4,000 years ago, on the ground in 2028.