This Gene-Tech Is More Impressive Than the Extinct Dire Wolves It Created. Here’s Why
Researchers with Colossal Biosciences, the private biotechnology and genetic engineering firm, are winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing an integrated pipeline capable of robust genomic reconstruction, gene-editing, and synthetic embryo maturation. You might recall the fruits of this effort, the birth of three “dire wolf” pups via surrogate dogs in 2025—which leveraged some (but not all) of the ancient wolves’ genetic code, which this team painstakingly recovered from fossilized remains of the North American dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus). The question Can full genomic data from extinct species—including species not seen alive on Earth for tens of thousands of years or even longer—actually be recovered via ancient fossils?
- ▪Researchers with Colossal Biosciences, the private biotechnology and genetic engineering firm, are winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing an integrated pipeline capable of robust genomic reconstruction, gene-editing, and sy
- ▪You might recall the fruits of this effort, the birth of three “dire wolf” pups via surrogate dogs in 2025—which leveraged some (but not all) of the ancient wolves’ genetic code, which this team painstakingly recovered from fossilized remai
- ▪The question Can full genomic data from extinct species—including species not seen alive on Earth for tens of thousands of years or even longer—actually be recovered via ancient fossils?
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Researchers with Colossal Biosciences, the private biotechnology and genetic engineering firm, are winners of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing an integrated pipeline capable of robust genomic reconstruction, gene-editing, and synthetic embryo maturation. You might recall the fruits of this effort, the birth of three “dire wolf” pups via surrogate dogs in 2025—which leveraged some (but not all) of the ancient wolves’ genetic code, which this team painstakingly recovered from fossilized remains of the North American dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus).
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