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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
ET Science Desk

Why bringing back the woolly mammoth isn’t a simple cloning job — scientists are solving a massive genetic engineering puzzle

Resurrecting the woolly mammoth might seem like a straightforward process: get some old DNA, clone it, and you will have a mammoth. Unfortunately, it is far from that easy.

DNA recovered from frozen mammoth remains is fragmented and incomplete. There is no whole cell of the mammoth that is ready for cloning.

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