The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

Colossal Biosciences cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm is worth $3.7 billion following the company's recent fundraise at an eye-popping $10.2 billion valuation. But it has yet to be paid for reviving extinct ...

As a proof of concept, this research is fascinating, although it remains to be seen whether Colossal's goal of creating an ...

Scientists with the company Colossal have created genetically engineered "woolly mice" with thick, golden-brown hair and fat deposits similar to those of cold-adapted woolly mammoths.

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is ...

The resulting animal would be a mammoth-elephant hybrid which looks, acts, behaves and functions in the environment just like woolly mammoths once did. Mr Lamm says: 'We are on target for our ...

When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the eight-ton, 12-foot, elephant-like beast walked the Earth, but part of its DNA now ...

Colossal, cofounded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church in 2021, has pledged, to much fanfare, to bring woolly mammoths (“cold-tolerant elephant mammoth hybrids,” actually ...

It doesn’t get them any closer to know if they would eventually be able to give an elephant useful mammoth-like traits ... living relative to make a hybrid animal that would be visually ...