Scientists resurrect mammoth's broken genes

Friday, February 7, 2020 - 08:40 in Biology & Nature

Woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island may have been the last of their kind anywhere on Earth. To learn about the forces that contributed to their extinction, scientists have resurrected a Wrangel Island mammoth's mutated genes. The goal was to study whether the genes functioned normally. They did not.

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