The project to do this was originally abandoned in February of this year due to poor DNA samples but another team is to press on- with the help of good old American gene sequencing know-how.
Personally I don't see this type of project as "playing God"- sure it sounds like science fiction but to be able to bring a recently extinct species back is absolutely incredible.
Next step- the mammoth. A group of Japanese scientists were attempting this using DNA recovered from a creature found frozen in the Siberian tundra. I wonder how they're getting on?
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