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Thu 11 Nov 2008Scientists close in on mammoth success
A team has pieced together an almost complete genome for the woolly mammoth, which throws up the possibility of one day bringing the prehistoric animal back to life, writes Dick Ahlstrom
A DEFROSTED hairball has helped an international team of scientists to piece together an almost complete genome for that pre-historic behemoth, the woolly mammoth. This is the first near-complete DNA sequence assembled for an extinct animal, and raises the notion of bringing the animal back to life using the sequence to produce a clone.
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