Colossal Biosciences has announced its first acquisition, bringing Viagen Pets and Equine, the world leader in animal cloning, into its growing biotechnology family. Viagen made headlines a few years ...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann from the frozen cells of an ancestor in a landmark achievement that boosts ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the ...

Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would otherwise plague a self-cloning species.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Lamm co-founded the Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences. The company is on a mission to bring back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of ...

Bringing extinct animals back sounds like science fiction, but it’s becoming real science. Companies like Colossal want to revive species like the dodo and woolly mammoth using cloning and ...

Scientists believe there are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. The carnivores once thrived on the plains between Canada and Mexico, but humans plowed ...

A viral social media exchange involving Elon Musk has revived debate about whether science could one day recreate extinct ...