Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the ...

Game of Thrones is far from a perfect show, but one of its early mistakes that carried on through the series had to do with ...

Crispr-Cas9 is a tool for making precise edits in DNA, discovered in bacteria. The acronym stands for 'Clustered Regularly ...

Closer to home, scientists in Melbourne, led by Professor Andrew Pask, are on a journey towards a similar scientific ...

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist Group concluded. Even if the company had recreated something much closer to ...

Gene editing can cure illnesses, ensure global food security, conserve species and more. But its risks of misuse are ...

Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for thousands of years. Now, scientists say they’ve brought the dire wolf back to ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous ...

Colossal Bioscience’s part resurrection of the extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering raises questions of how far we ...

Dire wolves are no longer just legends of the North. Once feared across the frozen landscapes of the Ice Age – and immortalized in fantasy on “Game of Thrones” – ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner opens up about how she feels regarding the recent Dire Wolf de-extinction news.