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Scientists trying to clone, resurrect extinct mammoth
Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park.
A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years.
The scientists say they will extract DNA from a mammoth carcass that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an African elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo.
The team is being led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan. He has built upon research from Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology, who successfully cloned a mouse from cells that had been frozen for 16 years, to devise a technique to extract egg nuclei without damaging them, according to the Yomiuri report.
The U.S. researchers are in vitro fertilization experts. They, along with Kinki University professor Minoru Miyashita, will be responsible for implanting the mammoth embryo into an African elephant, the report said.
"If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed [the mammoth] and whether to display it to the public," Iritani told Yomiuri. "After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."
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Lets clone the mammoth now and we can dothe ones going extinct now later
China's working on it!
I don't know why, but I thought I read something like this before. It didn't turn out too well as I recall. Oh well, what me worry?
For what it's worth,mammoth ivory is being used to replace ivory keys on pianos since elephant ivory is illegal.It's true.Look it up.
They need to clone at least 2. Mammoths were social animals. If you clone only one, it'll go crazy. And you don't want a crazy mammoth running around.
Just let it live with regular elephants – Asian or African. It probably wont know the difference.
what s next, u.s army cloning t-rex using them for wars. ha ha ha that be crazy.
Who will feed it and collect it's gas?
Yet again another pointless, useless scientific "advance". And you just have to read the comments here... yeah, let's create more life to slaughter it and eat it... No need to ever clone neanderthals, the world is full of them.
Yeah, who needs scientific discoveries? I wish our ancestors never left the caves and remained gatherers. No hunting of course, because that requires spears, which is another useless discovery. I'm against advancing the human race and want nothing to change. Who cares if exploring this kind of technology helps us understand cellular biology and contributes to a cure for cancer? I refuse to think about the benefits of such a useless technology! Why think when I can just criticize?!
if you knew anything you would know that neadrethals had a larger brain capacity than humans and were very much like us and we even mated with them. Humans just out competed them when the earth warmed up and humans spread and adapted to the new climate changes where as the neandrethal, didnt.
Looks like someone didn't evolve enough to get the humor gene...
Lee S: Either we AND Neanderthals are both humans or our ancestors who mated with them were guilty of beastiality. Which is it?
yay.. a mammoth.... while disease still plagues us all..... yay.......................... a mammoth...... :-/
Wow, pretty fuzzy thinking there. So money spent on animal research means less on medical research in your world?
Am I the only one who read almost the same exact story some 3 years ago?
Lisa, that is just hilarious and gegorous and so much fun! I can't believe your planning AMAZING! It sounds like a fantastic holiday and I can't wait to see your photos when you return. We are taking a California road trip in January, so I will be very keen to see your pics and read how it all went. Have fun! Angie
Fertilizer!
A buck says it will look just like Joy Behar.
Y'know, Joy Behar has really made something of herself and look at you, Willie: still in junior high school.
I, personally, thought that was hilarious. Kudos! I love jokes!
It's good to know we're going to tax the world's ecology even further by introducting yet ANOTHER species, all for our entertainment. Because, the only reason you (humanity) exists, is to be entertained.
That's not why we're here? Please do explain the meaning of life....
Feel free to kill yourself to make room for the mammoth.
First the bear markets in stocks and real estate, now my fossilized mammoth tusk/femur collection is going to plunge too.
Mammoth, the other red meat!