{"id":207791,"date":"2025-03-04T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-aiming-to-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-create-woolly-mice"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:08:26","slug":"scientists-aiming-to-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-create-woolly-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-aiming-to-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-create-woolly-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-aiming-to-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-create-woolly-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the US biotechnology company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/11\/it-wont-end-like-jurassic-park-that-was-a-movie-the-man-who-wants-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-back-to-life\">Colossal Biosciences<\/a> plan to \u201cde-extinct\u201d the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse. Scientists at the US biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences plan to \u201cde-extinct\u201d the prehistoric pachyderms by genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them woolly mammoth traits. They hope the first calf will be born by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}