Chromosomes found in a 52,000-year-old freeze-dried woolly mammoth may help scientists determine its genetic code, a June study revealed.
The first-of-its-kind research published in the journal Cell is an enormous step forward in sequencing a complete woolly mammoth genome, bringing the long-extinct beast closer to revival. “Until now, we could only read small fragments of ancient DNA,” study co-author Juan Antonio Rodriguez told LiveScience in an email. “These fragments were about 100 letters of DNA, but we did not know what order they had in the mammoth genome. It is like separated pages of a book, but without the page number.”
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