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Colossal is more than just a genetics and biosciences company. Founded by Ben Lamm and world-renowned geneticist and serial biotech founder George Church. Colossal is led by CEO Ben Lamm and anchored by some of the most recognized names in science and industry.
Colossal Biosciences Inc. is an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company working to de-extinct the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo. In 2023, it stated that it wants to have woolly mammoth hybrid calves by 2028, and wants to reintroduce them to the Arctic tundra habitat.
Through technological and engineering breakthroughs in biosciences and genetics, Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for the future economies and biological necessities of the human condition.
Colossal’s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth - or more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the Woolly Mammoth.
Jan 31, 2023 · Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, has today announced an oversubscribed $150M Series B financing led by United States Inn.
Mar 6, 2024 · The breakthrough — announced today by the de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, Texas — is an early technical success in Colossal’s high-profile effort to engineer elephants...
1 day ago · “Boring for us, but great for the de-extinction people.” For example, the biotech firm Colossal Biosciences is planning to splice quintessential mammoth genes into the elephant genome—a task made easier by the kissing-cousin chromosomes—and then use modern elephants as surrogate mothers to give birth to a mammothlike creature.
1 day ago · Eriona Hysolli, head of biological sciences at Colossal Biosciences — a company working to reintroduce a version of the woolly mammoth to the Arctic — said the 3D chromosome structures the ...
2 days ago · Colossal Biosciences did not provide funding or support for the research. And 3-D genomic data will also be useful in efforts to save existing organisms from extinction. “Given the climate ...
Mar 6, 2024 · De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical breakthrough that could lead to the return of the long-lost mammals.
