SO THEY MADE WOOLY MICE USING MAMMOTH GENOMES AND I LOVE THEM

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Hoping to revive mammoths, scientists create 'woolly mice'

Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some

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prev's tags are interesting so i'm stealing them: they are never ever going to successfully gene edit elephants to look like mammoths and i'm sure everyone on this project knows that for one we don't have anything close to a completely mapped genome for elephants the way we do for mice that's why we use mice for gene experiments! also they require very few resources to house and you can use thousands of them at once and they have short pregnancies and many offspring and a high tolerance for inbreeding. you'll notice none of this is true for elephants this is 100% a promotional stunt. they'll get more funding for whatever they're *really* trying to do. maybe genome mapping? all they have done is slightly alter the fur quality of a furred animal into a variant that already exists (angora) but yes they are very cute!

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