article_snippet: A huge step towards recreating the woolly mammoth has been taken by scientists who inserted more than a dozen of a genes into the live DNA of an elephant.
article_snippet: Researchers studied the structure of DNA from mammoths preserved in Arctic to reproduce exact copies of 14 of the extinct animal’s genes.
article_snippet: Researchers studied the structure of DNA from woolly mammoths (file illustration) preserved in Arctic to reproduce exact copies of 14 of the extinct animal’s genes .
article_snippet: There are at least three teams trying to rebuild the whole mammoth genome - which could one day become a template to recreate actual mammoths, reported The Sunday Times.
article_snippet: Last week, MailOnline reported how scientists had begun extracting DNA from the remains of a mammoth found in Siberia, taking bone marrow samples from MailOnline front left leg.
article_snippet: bone marrow samples will be examined at a laboratory in Yakutsk, Russia, and by scientists in South Korea - with the hope of one day being able to clone one of the prehistoric animals.
highlights_snippet: Scientists study structure of DNA from mammoths preserved in Arctic .
  