But to claim you'd re-created a mammoth, he thinks you'd need to make millions of changes to the Asian elephant's DNA. You'd have to put in every mammoth-specific change, plus take away everything ...

A company that is working on the "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth is now in the process of developing a vaccine that could help save modern elephants from meeting the same fate as their cold ...

Fears that illegal elephant tusks are being peddled as mammoth parts have some experts seeking protections for the extinct animal. Rachel Nuwer/Undark Sep 5, 2019 12:42 PM EDT ...

Could elephant-mammoth hybrids roam the tundra? Researchers analyze the genes of several elephant species, and find genes from their extinct ancestors could help save them. Eric Mack has been a ...

The Asian elephant, for instance, is the living animal with the fewest number of genetic differences from the mammoth. You can use it as a sort of master recipe from which to build.

Splicing mammoth DNA into elephant cells is only the first step in a lengthy process, Church said. Next, they need to find a way to turn the hybrid cells into specialized tissues, to see if they ...

Scientists are hoping an artificial womb will be the key to growing a mammoth-elephant hybrid in a lab and potentially saving the elephant from extinction. A team of researchers at Harvard ...

Building a more mammoth-like elephant involves blending ancient mammoth DNA and modern-day elephant cells, but there are at least two approaches to the task: One research team has been trying to ...

Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces ...

As Church’s lab works through the frozen mammoth samples collected from Siberian permafrost, the startup is also funding work on Asian and African elephants by the Vertebrate Genome Project to ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Woolly mammoths have been extinct for more than 4,000 years, but with new gene-editing techniques, they could help mitigate the effects of a modern problem: climate change.

So far, they have managed to insert some mammoth genes into elephant cells in the lab, such as those for more hair growth or fat production, according to a previous Live Science report.