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Behold, the woolly mouse.
Scientists at the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences have taken a small step towards their goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth: Colossal Woolly Mouse.
“I’m excited,” Beth Shapiro, Chief Science Officer at Colossal, tells PEOPLE, explaining that this is “really our first validation” that they actually can create living animals that have been genetically modified to have woolly mammoth traits.
“It’s the first time that we’ve succeeded,” she adds.
Like woolly mammoths, these mice have curlier hair — which is the same color of the mammoth mummies found in the permafrost — as well as a gene that should impact the way their bodies metabolize fat.
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