The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

In this Special Report, an Unidentified speaker details the claims by US-based Colossal Biosciences to have 'successfully ...

The endangered species list may change under the Trump administration. After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies ...

A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire wolves that the company brought back from extinction are growing quickly, already exceeding the grey wolf in size The genetic engineering ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

The funding comes from Colossal Biosciences, a company focused on "de-extinction" that gained attention this year for creating wolves that carry dire-wolf DNA. The company's work inspired an ...

A dire wolf de-extinction debate, CRISPR-GPT for gene editing, and more topped the list of our most popular stories in ...

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A little over 30 years ago, dinosaurs walked the Earth again thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...