Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...
The dodo, a flightless bird from Mauritius, disappeared in the 17th century due to human activity and introduced predators. Advances in cloning may allow insertion of dodo DNA into closely related ...
The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Wednesday, the “de-extinction” ...
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 ...
The company’s CEO Ben Lamm said that they expect to bring the dodo back to life within the next seven years.
Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based science company, announced on Wednesday that it is working to bring back the dodo bird from extinction using genetic engineering. The dodo bird, which has been ...
Besides enriching the English language with phrases to denote anything dead or extinct, the extinct bird species that the world knows as dodo seems to have provided the world enough food for thought ...
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Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...