Can revive mammoths

A group of international experts completed the genetic sequence of fine-haired mammoths, to study the extinct species and hope to revive them.

New hope in reviving mammoths

The DNA used for the study was taken from two 45,000-year-old mammoth fossils in Siberia and 4,300-year fossils from Wrangel Island, Russia. Mating characteristics of mammoths from Wrangel Island show that they have experienced a significant decline in genetic diversity before extinction.

Mammoth model in Karpin Abentura park, Spain.(Photo: Reuters)

" Individuals from Wrangel Island, one of the last mammoths in the world, have a lower genetic variation than the rest of the ancient species ," IB Times quoted Love Dalén, the Museum's geneticist. Swedish natural history, said. However, currently cannot confirm that inbreeding is the cause of extinction.

Dalén said the publication of the full DNA sequence of mammoths could be useful information if they want to revive them. However, this does not seem morally appropriate.

Meanwhile, Long Now in the US is aiming to revive mammoths and intends to begin a humanized test in 2018 . The purpose of the study is not to create a perfect replication of extinct mammoths, but to create mammoths that can adapt to cold climatic conditions.

According to the BBC, a group of American experts simultaneously implanted mammoth genes into modern elephant stem cells to find out the characteristics of the species, in order to find out the cause of this species's survival for generations.

However, the process of creating mammoth blood cells to study their physiology may be difficult."The cell lives in a disc at the launch of the experiment different from the mammoth-like creature ," said Professor Beth Shapiro from the University of California.