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.