On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...

Cute as a button, but not dire wolves: Colossal Biosciences claims that these animals, Romulus and Remus, represent an extinct species rescued from oblivion. But experts say that's hype. (Colossal ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a controversial announcement in early April, Colossal revealed it had genetically engineered ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

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 the ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...

Anyone weary of the fire hose of dire news from the White House might have found respite in an uplifting story emanating from Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based genetics startup, early this month: ...