--- title: Colossal Biosciences: 2025 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Colossal Biosciences: 2025 TIME100 Most Influential Companies canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-06-26T11:27:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T02:29:38.482Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Colossal Biosciences og:description: Find out why Colossal Biosciences is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c8d190b86152222/6998c752e1ba008e8598da1d/T100Companies-colossal-biosciences.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Colossal Biosciences og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Colossal Biosciences twitter:description: Find out why Colossal Biosciences is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c8d190b86152222/6998c752e1ba008e8598da1d/T100Companies-colossal-biosciences.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 26, 2025 # Colossal Biosciences Taking on extinction by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large  Remus, a dire wolf Colossal Biosciences created and is raising Remus, a dire wolf Colossal Biosciences created and is raisingRobert Clark for TIME Extinction ain’t what it used to be. Around one-third of all existing species could vanish due to global warming by 2050 according to the [Center for Biological Diversity](https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global%5Fwarming%5Fand%5Fendangered%5Fspecies/#), but a handful of those already gone—and others on the brink of extinction—are getting a second chance, thanks to Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences. The company announced in March it had genetically engineered [mice](https://time.com/7264043/colossal-biosciences-woolly-mouse-bring-back-mammoth/) with the shaggy, golden-brown coat of the woolly mammoth—an initial step in Colossal’s stated goal of bringing back the mammoth itself by 2028\. In April, Colossal went further with its introduction of three genetically engineered [dire wolves](https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/), the first representatives of that species to walk the planet in over 10,000 years. Just as important, the company is using similar technology to help protect the red wolf, the Asian elephant, and other species currently clinging to life. “As I've gotten into the conservation community and…the biotech community, it became abundantly clear that we need new tools and technologies for conservation,” Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm says. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/"},"headline":"Colossal Biosciences","datePublished":"2025-06-26T11:27:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:29:38.482Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/","keywords":["Companies2025","list","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c8d190b86152222/6998c752e1ba008e8598da1d/T100Companies-colossal-biosciences.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"creator":"Jeffrey Kluger","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c8d190b86152222/6998c752e1ba008e8598da1d/T100Companies-colossal-biosciences.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies2025/","name":"Companies2025"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289644/colossal-biosciences/","name":"Colossal Biosciences"}}]}] ```