Revival of the woolly mammoth

Did you know that restoration of the extinct populations of the Wooly mammoth is really possible? Scientists have recovered DNA from mammoth fossils found in Siberian permafrost. The genetic material extracted from the teeth of Wooly mammoth was highly degraded, having fragmented into lots of tiny pieces over the millennia. To reassemble the pieces and help filter out any DNA from microbes or other contaminants, the researchers used the genomes of modern-day elephants as guides, much as someone solving a jigsaw puzzle. In all they recovered billions of DNA base pairs from the fossil — about 70 to 80 percent of the genome. Now it is become possible in the near future using CRISPR-Cas9 DNA editing techniques we would be able to edit and change Indian elephant DNA in order to restore extinct populations of the Wooly mammoth.