Mammoth moves: frozen cells come to life, but only just

The project by an international team took cell nuclei from a well-preserved mammoth discovered in 2011 in Siberian permafrost and placed them into several dozen mouse egg cells. Of those, five displayed the biological reactions that happen just before cell division begins, said Kei Miyamoto, a member of the team at Kindai University in western Japan. None, however, produced the actual cell division needed for a mammoth rebirth, the researcher told AFP.

Source: phys.org