Company attempts to resurrect mammoths using stem cells. American researchers, who have managed to create elephant stem cells in the laboratory, are trying to bring woolly mammoths back to life.
This is a considerable step forward for researchers. They would have succeeded in reprogramming the cells of an Asian elephant by modifying the sequences of its DNA to reveal the genes of a woolly mammoth. The future embryo must still survive implantation in the elephant, then gestation. Another major challenge: the little mammoth will have to be able to survive in an environment radically different from its own.