“team from Kindai University in Japan are taking a different approach and have been trying to work out how to repair damaged cells; they are essentially sticking broken chromosomes back together to try to bring a dead cell back to life. In 2019, this team tried using mouse enzymes to reconstitute cells recovered from the remains of Yuka, a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy that was recovered from melting sediments in Russia’s Sakha Republic in 2010. Yuka is widely considered to be the most intact mammoth yet discovered. Even so, her cells are far too degraded to be brought back to life.”