Before the end of the decade, ponderous woolly mammoths could be traipsing across the tundra once again.
Driven to extinction about 10,000 years ago, the 15-tonne animals could soon be kicking up the permafrost — if a company called Colossal has its way.
Under the aegis of George Church, considered by many to be the godfather of genetic engineering, Colossal is using state-of-the-art genomic sequencing and Crispr gene-editing technologies to splice together recovered genetic material from the long-lost mammoths and DNA from Asian elephants.
It is a process known as “de-extinction”, and researchers have been working on it for several years.
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