A Dallas Biotech Company Just Brought the Dire Wolf Back from Extinction
GamesBeat reports on the ancient DNA science and gene editing behind one of the most ambitious breakthroughs in modern biology
GamesBeat covers Colossal Biosciences’ announcement of the world’s first functionally de-extincted dire wolves, tracing how the Dallas-based company used ancient DNA recovered from fossils to introduce around 20 targeted gene edits into the gray wolf genome. The result was three pups, Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, born via surrogate dogs and now living on a secure 2,000-acre preserve. The piece engages with the scientific conversation around what de-extinction means in practice, and how Colossal frames the achievement as a platform for advancing genomics and conservation biology more broadly. As CEO Ben Lamm said at the time of the announcement, “This massive milestone is the first of many coming examples demonstrating that our end-to-end de-extinction technology stack works.” Read the full story at GamesBeat.