{"id":2544,"date":"2025-11-06T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:27:22","slug":"colossal-acquires-viagen-to-scale-species-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/colossal-acquires-viagen-to-scale-species-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal Biosciences Acquires Viagen to Scale Species Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"1446\">Colossal Biosciences has acquired Viagen Pets &amp; Equine, integrating industry-leading reproductive services, cryopreservation, and cell banking into Colossal\u2019s conservation platform. Viagen will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary, continuing its pet, equine, and livestock services while partnering with Colossal on endangered-species programs and upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/colossalfoundation.org\/project\/species-biobank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BioVaults<\/a> initiatives. The move strengthens Colossal\u2019s end-to-end toolkit\u2014spanning ancient DNA assembly, comparative genomics, genome engineering, assisted reproduction, and long-term preservation\u2014so projects can move from research to real-world species recovery faster. With shared expertise, expanded capacity, and proven methodologies, the combined team aims to scale practical, science-driven solutions that preserve biodiversity and protect critical genetic resources worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1448\" data-end=\"1507\">Full feature on <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/colossal-biosciences-acquires-viagen-animal-cloning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ScreenRant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossal Biosciences has acquired Viagen Pets &amp; Equine, integrating industry-leading reproductive services, cryopreservation, and cell banking into Colossal\u2019s conservation platform. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}