there is also dr george church at harvard trying to recreate a woolly mammoth by using the technique. extraordinary that that is possible and, are you concerned when you hear things like that? is there a reason to be concerned? well, whether or not it is possible, i am not sure. but i think the sort of larger point there is that it is possible now to use genome editing to introduce dna sequences into cells in a controlled way, and so whether we are trying to create a woolly mammoth or even make a small change that introduces new genetic traits into an existing organism... so he is doing this with elephants. this is the idea, right. would it be possible to create a woolly mammoth? i think it will be hard, honestly. it is going to require figuring out exactly what pieces of dna to reintroduce into an elephant, and obviously finding an appropriate habitat for that resulting animal. one of the other things that has been done is double muscled animals, this is the argument... correct, yeah. and you can imagine police dogs which are more muscly. yeah. this is also of course something that h