Playlist: New books

A genetic lab

The translation of Woolly by Ben Mezrich, released by China Citic Press, is about a true story of a group of young scientists from the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University that tries to sequence the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth from the Arctic circle and splice its elements into the DNA of a modern elephant. Mezrich, a Harvard graduate himself, is a bestselling writer of non-fiction books and is known widely for The Accidental Billionaires. Mezrich features Luhan Yang, 31, from Sichuan province, among the scientists being guided by geneticist George Church.