Scientists Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths

[Gahars]

I was going to type a long preface relating this story to Jurassic Park, but why waste your time; I'm sure I'll get it in somewhere else. So instead, let's go straight to the science.

Scientists are going to clone a Woolly Mammoth.

And here's how they plan to do it.

...the scientists plan to replace the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with nuclei material taken from the marrow cells of the mammoth thigh bone. The scientists believe that with this procedure, they might be able to produce embryos with mammoth DNA which may be implanted into a female elephant for gestation. AFP reports scientists expect the procedure to succeed because elephants and mammoths are closely related species.

Source: Digital Journal (Definitely worth checking out the full article, as it goes into a lot more detail)

And this isn't some far off "Maybe in the far off future" sort of thing, with scientists hoping that the technology to support this is developed. No, we have all we need; with luck, we could have it in five years.

The fact that we can resurrect a species that has been extinct for 5000 or so years is mind blowing. If this succeeds, it will be one of our crowning achievements as a species. Still, the scientists should be careful with the cloned creature; after all, life always seems to find a way.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Interesting. I bet in 10-20 years we'll have them in zoos and will be using them as a food source.

 

[Nujui]

Amazing, I wonder if how the mammoth will look since the way it's been cloned, I'm also interested on how it will act.

 

[Lacius]

It won't be the first animal to be brought back from extinction through cloning.

 

[DinohScene]

Sweet!

Hopefully they will make Prehistoric park come true

 

[Gahars]

It won't be the first animal to be brought back from extinction through cloning.

True, but the length of time between its extinction and subsequent cloning still makes it significant. Hopefully these mammoths will have better luck surviving long past birth.

 

[PolloDiablo]

 

[chyyran]

Yay!

The only downside is that it either dies, or that it goes on a rampage.

Well, of either two, the latter is more likely..

Can't wait to taste Mammoth Steak

 

[sputnix]

sure they get female eggs, then the need to create the male's sperm, then I guess let it grow in an elephant and hope that the chromosome number is correct and has no duplicate chromosomes and then hope it doesn't have any birth defects as the cells have been dead for over 23,000 years. How can they be so optimistic if they can't even clone sheep correctly?

 

[Nujui]

Yay!

The only downside is that it either dies, or that it goes on a rampage.

Well, of either two, the latter is less likely..

Can't wait to taste Mammoth Steak

How would mammoth even taste like?

 

[BrightNeko]

This post made me laugh to hard

 

[MEGAMANTROTSKY]

It won't be the first animal to be brought back from extinction through cloning.

If that article you linked to is anything to go by, these projects don't seem to have much success. Well, best of luck to them.

Found this article. Looks like it's worth a read, though it's negative about the prospect of cloning. http://io9.com/5865590/no-we-wont-be-able-to-clone-a-woolly-mammoth-in-the-next-five-years/

 

[DiscostewSM]

Life...uh....find a way.

 

[OJClock]

they've been wanting to do this for years now
no reason to believe it'll actually happen this time

 

[stinkoman]

That's badass.

 

[Thesolcity]

life always seems to find a way.

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[junkerde]

Scientists Resurrecting Micheal Jackson more like hahha

 

[Helpful Corn]

They have been cloning the aliens they found for years.

 

[Youkai]

If i understand it correct its NOT a Clining project like some here are talking about but more like "mutating DNA" to make a normal elefant become a mutation that looks like a mammoth.

well should be possible to do and if this does succeed maybe the politicians will finaly allow tests with human cells so that they will really be able to "modify" unborn humans for perfect health and such.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Have we not been hearing these sort of news repeatedly over the years -.-?

- Planet with life forms found
- Mammoths being reborn
- Bla bla