4 d. ago Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerousYou will never ever see a living woolly mammoth. While this is an obvious truth to most geneticists, zoologists and mammoth experts, the endless promises that you might get to meet an extant version of this very-much extinct elephantid apparently necessitate me typing it.The latest on the conveyor belt of mammoth resurrection stories came this week in the form of a slightly hairy mouse. Colossal Biosciences, the US company behind the “woolly mouse” and ensuing media frenzy, published a non-peer-reviewed paper in which it has genetically engineered a mouse to express a gene that relates to mammoth hair, resulting in a mouse with slightly longer hair than normal.Dr Adam Rutherford is a lecturer in genetics at UCL and the author of How to Argue With a Racist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Scientists trying to bring back the woolly mammoth end up with woolly mice

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences have edited the genes of seven mice in their plan to ‘revive’ extinct animals

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6 d. ago Biotech company takes big step towards recreating woolly mammoth

Mice genes have been edited to give them woolly mammoth-like fur

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6 d. ago Scientists take step towards recreating woolly mammoth with woolly mice

Extinction is still forever

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6 d. ago Scientists genetically engineer mice with thick hair like the extinct woolly mammoth

Extinction is still forever

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6 d. ago Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephantsA plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.Scientists at the US biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences plan to “de-extinct” the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the end of 2028. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Meet the world's first woolly MOUSE: Scientists genetically engineer rodents with thick, fluffy coats

Colossal Biosciences has revealed the world's first 'woolly mice', after engineering rodents to grow thick, warm coats using mammoth DNA.

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