Mammoth plan for giant comeback
The Telegarph article on our recent work sequencing the woolly mammoth genome and the likelihood for whole genome data.
Dec 20, 2005
Author: Roger Highfield
Media: The Telegraph
Date: December 2005
The first serious possibility that the woolly mammoth, or something like it, could walk on Earth again was raised yesterday by an international team of scientists. A portion of the genetic code of the mammoth has been reconstructed and, to the surprise of scientists, the team that carried out the feat believes that it will be possible to decode the entire genetic make-up.