The resurrection quest
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The Arctic Adapted Elephant
The overall plan from colossal's perspective is to identify the genetic changes that make a mammoth look more like a mammoth and less like an elephant. Then engineer an Asian elephant cell to have some or as many of those mutations as possible, creating an Arctic adapted elephant. The plan is to eventually have these Arctic adapted elephants born and raised and hopefully released into some habitat in which they are welcome. I think personally that this is a long way off but the technologies that are discovered will be useful for lots of different applications and conservation.
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