Mr Miyamoto argued “significant steps” have been made toward bringing mammoths “back from the dead”.
He said: “Once we obtain cell nuclei that are kept in better condition, we can expect to advance the research to the stage of cell division.”
An in their study, published in Scientific Reports, the researchers wrote: “This approach, taking advantage of oocyte machinery, may provide the possibility that further nuclear functions, that is, DNA replication and transcription, can be induced to extinct mammoth nuclei and promote the embryo development with lesser-damaged nuclei.
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