Bringing the MAMMOTH back to life
he last known mammoth died some 4000 years ago on a small Russian island in North Siberia. But perhaps we have not seen the last of this giant species. In 2019, scientists from the Japanese Kindai University in Osaka extracted bone marrow and muscle tissue from a 28,000-year-old mammoth named Yuka which had been excavated near the village of Yukagir in north-eastern Siberia. The scientists identified cell nucleus-like structures and inserted the least damaged of these into egg cells from
