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@AbouBenAdhem you can patent how you make rats and knock out mice, so kind of, yes. But not necessarily the living organism. The mice have been genetically altered to “knock out” genes (strings of dna that code for a protein). The organisms - the mice with the knocked out genes- are licensed as research materials. That is my understanding.
Notwithstanding all of that, creating clones of woolly mammoths is a spectacularly bad idea and probably unethical. WTF are you going to do with one if you succeed?
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IMO our overriding priority should be maximizing earth’s remaining biodiversity. While I’m not convinced that resurrecting extinct species is the most effective way to do it—or that this case is how it should be done—I’m not ready to declare it a bad idea in principle. Especially if we’re talking about a relatively recent extinction caused by human overhunting.