Cracking the code of life has become the mainstream biological science. It solves a lot of problems and crack open a lot of soultion to different problem but it also create new problems as well.
Reviving mamoth is not so scientific but it is quite a romantic idea to me. Mamoth died out of drastic environmental change. You can say it is evolutional. Tasmanian tiger died out of human 's ignorance. It is not evolutional.