As always, popular science loves their sensationalist article titles. There is a big difference between splicing in a couple of mammoth genes into a modern elephant and "brining back the wooly mammoth".
I thought it was a relatively restrained title. They did say, "edge closer" and not, "Mammoths resurrected from the dead! Are they coming for you next?!" ;)
As always, popular science loves their sensationalist article titles. There is a big difference between splicing in a couple of mammoth genes into a modern elephant and "brining back the wooly mammoth".
I thought it was a relatively restrained title. They did say, "edge closer" and not, "Mammoths resurrected from the dead! Are they coming for you next?!" ;)