Scientists at the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences have taken a small step towards their goal of bringing back the woolly ...

Scientists working to bring back the woolly mammoth have created genetically engineered mice that they say have several ...

The woolly mouse's fluffy fur isn't the only alteration Colossal made. Genes associated with body weight and fat metabolism have also been edited in the mice to better mirror that in mammoths. These ...

The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—starting with a very furry mouse.

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern ...

In recent years, for instance, studies have indicated that fat is far from the lone culprit in human weight gain, and that carbohydrates play a hefty role. “Mice are a good model for human obesity . .

The ob gene -- ob for obesity -- was moved into mice in 1995, and the photo of the fat mouse next to the thin mouse with the ob gene was carried by nearly every media outlet in the nation. Overnight ...

Scientists with the company Colossal have created genetically engineered "woolly mice" with thick, golden-brown hair and fat deposits similar to those of cold-adapted woolly mammoths.

“This mouse model performs exercise better than their normal littermates.” Unlike white fat, which stores energy, brown fat ...

Washington University researchers activated the Hedgehog protein pathway in the fat cells of mice. After eight weeks of eating a high-fat diet, mice that had been engineered with genes to activate ...