Ben Lamm, the CEO and co-founder of the technology firm Colossal Biosciences, does not want to play favorites with the company’s various de-extinction projects. One look around a newly finished ...

Resurrecting dire wolves is pretty darn metal. Hatching new dodo birds would make the impossible seem possible. Bringing back the woolly mammoth is cool. Why it matters: Dallas-based "de-extinction" ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...

Colossal Biosciences genome engineer Jonathan Walsh works on thylacine projects during a tour of the facility, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025 in Dallas. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer Science startup ...

While de-extinction often conjures images of scientific ambition divorced from conservation reality, Colossal Biosciences has developed a conservation-oriented approach to species restoration. Every ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...