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Warhound, founded with the involvement of Ben Lamm (Colossal Biosciences) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril), has emerged from stealth with a $200 million round at a $1.2 billion valuation. The startup plans to create genetically enhanced working dogs for the US military and police, while Anduril will provide their gear.
Sevara AzamovaIn the summer of 2026, two studies — by Kathy Niakan's group in Cambridge and Dieter Egli's group at Columbia University — applied base editing to human embryos. The method is considered more precise and safer than classic CRISPR-Cas9, but mosaicism has not been reduced to zero, and ethical questions — the boundary between therapy and enhancement, consent, stigmatization — remain open. No country permits heritable changes.
Madina UsmonovaColossal Biosciences has announced the AI platform GenoMorph, which helps identify genes for editing in de-extinction projects with limited genetic data. The platform is being applied to the dodo project, for which only one genome is available. The company also reported that its Nicobar pigeon colony has grown to 36 birds and that it has created cells that give rise to eggs and sperm.
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