Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company, announced that it has achieved a scientific first -- bringing back an extinct animal: the dire wolf. Crucial questions emerge about scientific hubris, playing God with cool new technological toys, and more.| The Hastings Center for Bioethics
You might have seen the headlines: Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf. Except, it's not quite a direct resurrection. What Colossal actually created are genetically engineered proxies: grey wolves modified to have some dire wolf traits. I wondered if the news might renew interest in the ethics of “de-extinction” and perhaps| Practical Ethics
A picture of a snow-white wolf is splashed across the front page of TIME magazine – but is it really an extinct species back from the dead? The creature is a genetically modified wolf made by Colossal Biosciences, a company valued at US$10 billion. The SMC asked experts to comment. Profes| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz