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Tech startup Colossal Biosciences announced it has created “woolly mice,” gene-edited lab mice that display “mammoth-like traits.” Photo provided by Colossal Biosciences. Colossal Biosciences, a Texas ...

Researchers have accomplished a strange and controversial thing in the name of conservation. Using modern genetic engineering techniques, they've created mice with long, thick hair that resembles the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists said they are one step closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth with the creation of the "woolly mouse," a genetically-modified rodent with traits ...

There are an estimated 1.5 million genetic differences between woolly mammoths and Asian elephants. Colossal Biosciences, the company aiming to resurrect the extinct species through genetic ...

WASHINGTON — Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically ...

Genetically modified mice may soon be able to keep residents of a Massachusetts beach town from becoming infected with Lyme disease, an ailment already impacting 15 percent of the population, ...