by rss feed | Feb 12, 2025 | Beth Shapiro, De-extinction, mammoth de-extinction, News Feeds, woolly dogs
I first learned about woolly dogs when researching woolly mammoth de-extinction. It turns out that there are or were many woolly creatures besides sheep. If you have to de-extinct something, I say let’s try to bring back the woolly dog and forget the mammoths....
by rss feed | Mar 17, 2024 | De-extinction, elephant stem cells, mammoth de-extinction, News Feeds, weekly reads
Last week one of the most popular stories was about a preprint from a mammoth de-extinction research group led by George Church having made elephant stem cells. I finally got a chance to look carefully at their preprint. Elephant stem cells preprint and mammoth...
by rss feed | Nov 5, 2023 | Colossal Biosciences, George Church, mammoth de-extinction, News Feeds, weekly reads
What’s more important than Woolly Mammoth de-extinction research in the stem cell arena? Only maybe a 10,000 other things. Still, the mammoth de-extinction efforts capture people’s attention much more than the average research story. Mammoth De-extinction...