The race to revive woolly mammoths using ancient DNA

Like “Jurassic Park,” what if you could use the science of DNA to resurrect long-extinct creatures that once roamed the earth?
Efforts to do that are actually underway.
Led by Dr. George Church – “the Einstein of our times,” according to author Ben Mezrich – a lab at Harvard Medical School is working on bringing back the woolly mammoth through genetic engineering.The process is detailed in Mezrich’s new book, “Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to