Jurassic Patent: How Colossal Biosciences is attempting to own the “woolly mammoth”
Antonio Regalado
created: April 16, 2025, 11 a.m. | updated: April 18, 2025, 9:22 a.m.
Colossal Biosciences not only wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—it wants to patent it, too. MIT Technology Review has learned the Texas startup is seeking a patent that would give it exclusive legal rights to create and sell gene-edited elephants containing ancient mammoth DNA. Colossal, which calls itself “the de-extinction company,” hopes to use…
2 months, 1 week ago: MIT Technology Review