The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...
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 ...
The resulting elephant-mammoth hybrid DNA can then be used to create 'pluripotent stem cells,' a type of cell that has the potential to become any kind of tissue. In theory, Colossal scientists ...
"But testing that hypothesis on an elephant isn't possible because elephants have a 22-month gestation period, so it would take a really long time, and it's also not particularly ethical," Beth ...
As biotech startups develop ways to resurrect the woolly mammoth, an international team of scientists have now reconstructed the iconic Ice Age beast’s 28 pairs of chromosomes. This genetic ...