Could CRISPR Gene Editing Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?

Can genetic engineering and reproductive technology de-extinct the Wooly Mammoth?

A photograph of a realistic life size replica model of a Woolly Mammoth next to a skeleton fossil at Shanghai Natural History Museum. Source: AKKHARAT JARUSILAWONG, via Shutterstock.

In the movie Jurassic Park, a team of geneticists brings extinct dinosaurs back to life to create a biological preserve and theme park on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Tourists can safely roam the park and see how the…