{"id":232,"date":"2021-09-03T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colossal.wpengine.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:14:58","slug":"de-extinction-of-the-woolly-mammoth-a-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/de-extinction-of-the-woolly-mammoth-a-step-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;De-extinction&#8217; of the Woolly Mammoth: A Step Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">By comparing DNA recovered from two long-dead individuals, a team of researchers have sequenced the species\u2019s entire genome \u2014 effectively providing a gene-by-gene instruction manual on how to build a mammoth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"remainder-content\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-11017726_601=\"809197\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-11017726_601=\"809198\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-11017726_601=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-11017726_601=\"1\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">Their study of the newly sequenced genome, which was published Thursday in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982215004200\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Current Biology<\/a>, offers all kinds of interesting insights into the animal\u2019s\u00a0past: when it first appeared,\u00a0when it\u00a0suffered from population bottlenecks, how it\u00a0was\u00a0affected by climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">But for people who work in the small but ambitious field of \u201cmammoth de-extinction,\u201d the genome is just as interesting for\u00a0the role it might play in the animal\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>To Read More, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/04\/24\/de-extinction-and-the-wooly-mammoth-genome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By comparing DNA recovered from two long-dead individuals, a team of researchers have sequenced the species\u2019s entire genome \u2014 effectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science-technology-page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}