Thursday, November 20, 2008

Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 20, @07:57AM

from the I-want-a-cave-bear dept.
BiotechScience
geekmansworld writes"From the Washington Post, 'An international team of scientists has reconstructed more than three-quarters of the genome of the woolly mammothusing DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species.' Who wants a pet mammoth?"

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