BOFFS BRING BACK WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Daily Star|July 12, 2024
Science bid to 'reverse extinction'
STEPHEN BEECH
BOFFS BRING BACK WOOLLY MAMMOTH

THE resurrection of huge woolly mammoths is a major step closer.

Boffins have made the first 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old chromosomes from a "freeze-dried" carcass.

They say the "unprecedented" breakthrough was possible only because the beast had gone through the process shortly after it died in Siberia.

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