Picture this: snow dusts the ground of a vast plain. Mountains rise in the distance, powerful winds sweep chilly air from the ...

“You might be able to alter the hair pattern of an Asian elephant or adapt it to the cold, but it’s not bringing back a woolly mammoth. It’s changing an Asian elephant,” said University of Montana’s ...

Colossal plans to bridge this gap by transforming the genomes of Asian elephants to make them more like those of woolly mammoths. Scientists have obtained high-quality woolly mammoth DNA sequences ...

The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.

The woolly mammoth once played a vital role in maintaining ... The science is clear: Asian elephants share 99.6% of their DNA with woolly mammoths. While the 0.4% difference might seem small ...

"We're not taking mammoth DNA and plugging in the holes, we're trying to engineer the lost genes from mammoths into Asian elephants." Fascinatingly, Asian elephants are closely related to woolly ...

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 ...

Colossal’s woolly mammoth patent application, with its descriptions of modified cells and animals, represents “the current standard in biotech cases,” says Cassie Edgar, a partner at the law firm ...

The company plans to rewrite 85 genes from modern Asian elephant DNA in order to match ancient woolly mammoth DNA — the same process it used for the dire wolves. So far, Time Magazine reported ...

A woolly mouse compared with a normal mouse ... the genes responsible for the traits that separate the mammoth from the Asian elephant—its close evolutionary relation—editing an elephant ...

After the birth of three pups has been called the "de-extinction" of a species not seen on Earth in more than 10,000 years, the company that made it possible has it sights set on resurrecting more ...