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jbotz
on May 16, 2023
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Colossal Biosciences Aims to ‘De-Extinct’ the Wool...
What available DNA? We have some really well-preserved frozen mammoths as DNA sources... frozen aurochs, not so many. Or any, that I know of.
atlantic
on May 17, 2023
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Yes, but DNA has a half-life of around 500 years. So there is a considerable difference between an animal that went extinct in the 1600s, and another 4000 years ago.
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