“One of the changes that we made was to alter the color of the hair, because Ben said he wanted them to be the same color,” Shapiro said. Lamm wanted the mammouse’s coat to approximate the ...

CEO and cofounder Ben Lamm says that Colossal is “the ... and the waviness and density and texture of that hair,” Shapiro says. Then they found three genes within the mouse genome involved ...

The Colossal scientists reviewed DNA databases of mouse genes to identify genes related to hair texture and fat metabolism. Each of these genetic variations are “present already in some living mice,” ...

Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically “engineer them into living animals,” said CEO Ben Lamm.

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