Cells from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago have begun to show "signs of biological [activity]" after they were implanted in mouse cells. The research, published in Scientific Reports, details how a well-preserved woolly mammoth, found in 2011 in the Siberian permafrost, has begun to show some activity. Woolly mammoths went extinct more than 4,000 years ago, with some scientists believing they died off from the changing climate and human hunters. CAN THE LONG-EXTINCT WOOLLY MAMMOTH BE CLONED? George Church, a Harvard and MIT geneticist and co-founder of CRISPR is the head of the Harvard Woolly Mammoth Revival team, a project that is in attempting to introduce mammoth genes into the Asian elephant for conservation purposes.

Source: Fox News March 12, 2019 17:38 UTC