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We can use genome editing technology to basically cut and paste our way to a mammoth from an asian elephant. this can be done in a dish, in a lab, growing on the surface, without involving asian elephants at all right now. >> just using the dna. >> just using the dna. >> which would then be injected into -- explain the process. >> after one edited the asian elephant genome so it contained fragments of mammoth dna, we have a cell growing in a dish in the lab that is mostly asian elephant but a bit mammoth. hopefully an important bit mammoth. you would have to take that cell and clone it, use so...

This summer's blockbuster hit "jurassic world" is the third highest grossing movie of all time. p the world learned anything at all from the jurassic movies, it should have been never try to bring back an extinct animal right? my next guest wants to do just that and not just one species. beth shapiro is professor of biology at uc santd cruz. she wants to recreate at least the traits of those creatures that have gone the way of the dodo starting with the prehistoric beast the mammoth. her new book is called "how to clone a mammal," the science of deextinction. beth shapiro, welcome. >> thanks f...