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 ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...

Colossal Biosciences is making headlines once again, not for a dinosaur, but for a breakthrough that's bringing the dodo back from extinction. The company, known for its audacious de-extinction ...

A rendering of the dodo, one of the extinct species Colossal Biosciences is attempting to bring back. Courtesy Colossal Biosciences Extinction is supposed to be permanent. But Colossal Biosciences, a ...

“Together, these advances — pigeon PGC culture and gene-edited chickens that do not make their own PGCs — set the stage for using surrogate chickens to help bring back dodo relatives, and eventually ...