The Resurrection Quest
Curious Cases
Is There a Willy Mammoth in the Arctic?
The last Willy Mamas died out four or five thousand years ago. If you freeze any sort of cell without some special preservation method, what will happen is the cells will shatter and the DNA will leak away. You can't make a Willy mammoth by cloning. But there may be another way around it instead. There's this whole other technique called gene editing. This is the approach that they're taking. Well, it just so happens that we have Dr. Beth Shapiro who's been an advisor to the company colossal that is involved in trying to resurrect the mammoth.
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