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Can Woolly Mammoths Be Brought Back To Life?
Scientists claim that they may be close to resurrecting traits of a creature that vanished from the planet thousands of years ago, reports say.
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Church and his teammates are attempting to create a “mammophant,” which would be an elephant with mammoth-like features — for example, small ears, subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair and cold-adapted blood — using the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
http://www.ibtimes.com/can-woolly-mammoths-be-brought-back-life-scientist-says-hybrid-mammoth-elephant-2493647
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