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The planet-saving plan to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead

By Nick Rufford
The Times·
16 mins to read
The planet-saving plan to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead
The planet-saving plan to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead

The fifth floor of George Church's laboratory at Harvard Medical School is off limits to visitors. "That's where the mammoths and Neanderthals live," the genetics professor says with a straight face. He's joking, obviously, because there aren't any Neanderthals. Mammoths? Not yet, but it may not be too long, he

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