Re: What are they doing about the frozen woolly mammoth?

To the best of my knowledge, they are trying to keep it frozen.  Some of the 
cells in the center of the mammoth's corpse are still viable.  As long as it 
is frozen, the tissues of the specimen will stay in better shape for future 
research.

There won't be any chance of reviving the mammoth.  It's been dead for 
thousands of years and so far science hasn't figured out a way to reverse 
death.  But, there was some talk about trying to clone the mammoth.  I don't 
know if they have started on that research.  The idea is to take a nucleus 
from the viable cells and insert it into the egg cell of an elephant (after 
taking out the elephant's DNA and nucleus).  They will then implant it into 
the uterus of a female elephant.  If everything goes well, then she will 
give birth to the first wooly mammoth in thousands of years.

Of course, cloning isn't that easy.  It took almost 300 tries before they 
were able to clone Dolly, and she's a sheep, an organism we are quite 
familiar with.  Imagine how difficult it will be to work with an organism 
that all we know about it came from fossilized bones.