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The “dire wolf” company is building a genetic biovault in Dubai

Gail P Sherman
Feb 06, 2026
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Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company that claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, is creating a biovault to preserve the genetic material of endangered species. The tissue and cells of up to 10,000 species will be sequenced and preserved, and the genomic data will be open-sourced. Partially fund…

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