The recent announcement of the resurrection of the dire wolf generated considerable global media attention and widespread ...

Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced the successful birth of three healthy dire wolf pups after ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

Colossal Biosciences, a US company aiming to “de-extinct” several ... month that it had created three dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) by editing genes in grey wolf (Canis lupus) embryos.

De-extinction has been talked about for decades. But Colossal's three dire wolves – which are actually grey wolves that possess 20 edited genes that are meant to give them dire wolf-like ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have achieved the 'de-extinction' of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the ...

One of the most challenging aspects of de-extinction is predicting how ancient genes will express in a modern organism. Colossal developed sophisticated computational models to predict the phenotypic ...

First, and most important, “de-extinction” is not de-extinction. The company says its claim to have de-extincted the dire wolf is legitimate because its edited pups meet some of the criteria ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast.

The company’s press release claimed the pups to be “the world’s first de-extinct animals … brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome ...