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Genome extracted from frozen woolly mammoth specimens and compared with Asian elephant genomes to reveal mammoth-specific genes
Mammoth
Elephant
Genome
Skin
cell
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Skin cells from Asian elephants are edited to carry mammoth genes
Nucleus
edited
3
Nucleus
replaced
An egg is created in the lab from stem cells. Its nucleus is then replaced with the nucleus from the skin cell containing the mammoth DNA
Egg
4
The egg is stimulated to start it dividing and carried to term either in a surrogate elephant mother or potentially in an artificial womb
Mammoth
Elephant
1
2
Genome
Genome
Genome extracted from frozen woolly mammoth specimens and compared with Asian elephant genomes to reveal mammoth-specific genes
Skin cells from Asian elephants are edited to carry mammoth genes
Skin cell
Nucleus edited
3
An egg is created in the lab from stem cells. Its nucleus is then replaced with the nucleus from the skin cell containing the mammoth DNA
Egg
Nucleus replaced
4
The egg is stimulated to start it dividing and carried to term either in a surrogate elephant mother or potentially in an artificial womb