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A comment on 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin. Parent comment

Re:52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed ... by rkallos on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:26PM (#40948615)
Woolly mammoths were a geoengineer species that have no living proxy. Bringing them back is definitely a controversial project, but there's a case to be made that de-extincting the woolly mammoth could help prevent permafrost from melting.
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Re:52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed ... by willi59549879 on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:16PM (#40949011)
Of how many animals would we need genetic material from? are there enough dna available that it would be possible?

if all animals will be clones, genetic diversity will be a problem. hopefully there is enough material available. seeing mammoths die out in real time would be more heartbreaking

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