“I was really interested in learning whether they just spend a lot more time grooming themselves than regular mice because ...

The animals, the first to have been created by Colossal Biosciences, have fluffy coats and curly whiskers. They’re small, fluffy, and kind of cute, but these mice represent a milestone in de ...

With curly whiskers and wavy ... 1 receptor), which regulates melanin production, in order to produce mice with golden hair rather than the usual dark fur and a variant associated with changes ...

The mice don’t have their characteristic short ... s shaggy coat—identifying distinct ones that make it coarse, curly, and ...

On March 4, Colossal announced that its scientists have simultaneously edited seven genes in mice embryos to create mice with long, thick, woolly hair. They nicknamed the extra-furry rodents as ...

There is, it seems, still a way to go. True, the fur of these mice is long, curly and blondish. In that way, it does resemble the coats of woolly mammoths preserved in permafrost. However ...

producing some mice with frizzy fur, some with curly whiskers, and some with fluffy golden coats. The experiments are described in a preprint paper that has not been peer-reviewed or published in ...

These mice are just the latest development in ... Colossal Woolly Mouse involved editing genes related to a rough coat, curly hair, and lipid metabolism. Credit: Colossal Laboratories and ...