Colossal is a newly announced company pursuing de-extinction by using CRISPR to genetically reengineer Asian elephants to be more like woolly mammoths. The project and company were announced by Harvard scientist George Church and his colleagues. The effort plans to apply gene-editing technology to recreate mammoth-like traits in elephants. The company disclosed it has raised $15 million to fund the work. Named backers include billionaire Thomas Tull and venture capital firms Breyer Capital and Draper Associates. Church said the mammoth work had previously received very little direct funding, under $10,000 a year.

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$15M

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Sep 2021