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 ...
Colossal Biosciences has just announced a world first breakthrough in avian genetics and secured $120 million in new funding to accelerate its dodo de-extinction project. To understand what this means ...
Colossal isn’t ‘bringing back’ lost species. But it might be working on something ‘useful.’ Colossal isn’t ‘bringing back’ lost species. But it might be working on something ‘useful.’ Colossal’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rendering of the bluebuck, an extinct species of African antelope and the subject of Dallas, Texas-based Colossal Biosciences' ...
In the year 1800, the bluebuck antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) went extinct due to human activities. Now, the team at Colossal Biosciences has achieved several key breakthroughs toward bringing the ...
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. While de-extinction often conjures images of scientific ambition divorced from conservation reality, Colossal Biosciences has ...
After 225 years extinct, scientists have sequenced DNA and edited cells to move the bluebuck closer to a return. Colossal Biosciences adds extinct bluebuck antelope to its de-extinction project ...
In October 2024, three dire wolf pups were born in a successful de-extinction project helmed by Colossal Biosciences, located in Dallas, Texas. The pups include two boys, Romulus and Remus, and a girl ...
The project, actively in progress, is powered by world-first breakthroughs in antelope reproduction and stem cell science; supported by local South African conservation organizations to support ...
Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...
Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it lead to unexpected consequences?
On April 30, 2026, the team at Colossal Biosciences announced the addition of the bluebuck antelope as the sixth species in its growing de-extinction portfolio. Here's what the company's ambitious ...