9 Apr 2025

Science: GE wolf back from extinction - or is it?

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 9 April 2025
Screengrab from YouTube page of Colossal Biosciences, which has brought an extinct wolf back to live through genetic engineering.

Photo: Colossal Biosciences

Science commentator Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to look at the success had by Colossal Biosciences at bringing back the dire wolf, which went extinct 12,500 years ago.

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Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology