Can scientists revive Neanderthals after the ancestors? A genetics expert explains whether it is possible and how such a process works

The American biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences recently announced that it has managed to revive the common wolf – a species that disappeared from the face of the Earth approximately twelve thousand years ago. According to geneticist Petr Svoboda from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, however, these are not real wolves. “They did not revive an extinct species, they just genetically modi…