A team of scientists have achieved the first step in reviving the woolly mammoth: creating the woolly mouse.
It's a mouse whose genes have been edited to have the same curly, long hair that woolly mammoths had when they roamed the earth.
Colossal Biosciences is a Texas-based company looking to do the impossible, using ancient DNA for what they call "de-extinction".
Beth Shapiro is an internationally renowned evolutionary biologist, a leader in the field of paleogenomics, and the chief science officer at Colossal Biosciences.
She joins Emile Donovan.
The genetically modified mice embody several woolly mammoth-like traits, according to Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences. Photo: Colossal Biosciences
