This week saw the release of some fascinating news about some very furry rodents— so-called “woolly mice ”—created as part of ...

Scientists trying to bring back the woolly mammoth end up with woolly mice - Biotech company Colossal Biosciences have edited ...

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

For centuries, no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine mystery,” Shapiro said. After proving herself with ancient DNA work on other birds, Shapiro persuaded the ...

Then, large sections of DNA from another species ... It could even be used to bring the extinct dodo back to life once enough genetic data has been collected from preserved samples.

We now know they were much slimmer. Unless we find new accounts, how the dodo lived is a mystery. Perhaps recreating the dodo in the distant future using DNA will be the only way we'll ever know for ...

Dr Anna Berenson has started a five-year project to perfect the process of creating one bird species from a close relative ...

having been first to recreate DNA data from a dodo. She specialises in the genetics of animals and plants that lived during the last glacial maximum, a cold climatic period around 20,000 years ago ...

Colossal Biosciences has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically "engineer them into living animals," said CEO Ben Lamm.

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, passenger pigeon, and others. Scientists worldwide are engaged in these ...

Researchers in the US plan to replace sections of DNA in chick embryos with those found ... And extinct species such as the dodo could be recreated by inserting their characteristics into similar ...