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How to Cook Up a Woolly Mammoth Using Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology is the fandangle new science where researches take d ana and then manipulate it in these very fancy ways, using stuff like crispbar. There are about one point five million genetic differences between an asian elephant and a woolly mammoth. We can ask that computer to tell us where the elephant is different from all of the mammoths. Then, using crispa, go through each of those differences, and gradually, maybe a couple at a time, or hopeful hundreds at a time,. cut and paste your way from a living, agent elephant cell to a cell that contains a mammothy geno. Sounds easy pasy. The reason it's not so easy p