Researchers were able to conduct a revolutionary scientific experiment with a woolly mammoth. That mammoth was dead 28 thousand years ago. In 2011, researchers found the fossil of a baby woolly mammoth in the Siberian ice.
Finding such information about extinct animals is a breakthrough. Scientists were intrigued by the biological structure of mammoth fossils. How active the cells of the body are, how the structure of DNA is being researched.
Japanese researchers are trying to inject life into the mammoth. Rat cells were injected after the mammoth’s dead nuclei were removed. Author Kei Miyamoto of Kindai University’s Department of Genetic Engineering says it is not impossible to bring cells back to life even after a long period of time has passed.
Their research shows that it was possible to revive some of the mammoth’s cells. The researchers first collected muscle and bone marrow samples. After the rat protein was injected into the mammoth, the ability of many cells to undergo nuclear remodeling increased.
Functional nuclei were present in the mammoth body 28,000 years ago. Researchers want to bring mammoth back to earth with the help of genome editing technique.