Scientists to bring extinct woolly mammoth back to life with the help of elephants
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 14/03/2012 04:18:52 AM
A group of South Korean and Russian scientists are planning to bring the woolly mammoth back to life, 10,000 years after the species went extinct. Using tissue samples from the specimens recovered in Siberia after global warming thawed the region's permafrost, the scientists will clone the huge, hairy prehistoric mammals.
In order to resurrect the massive species, the scientists will take an egg cell from an elephant, and remove the cell's nucleus, which is the part that contains most of the cell's genetic material. This will be replaced by a nucleus taken from the mammoth's somatic cell, effectively creating an egg cell that could one day develop into a baby mammoth. But before the researchers can actually do any of this, they first have to find tissues with undamaged genes, and restore the cells after thousands of years of being frozen.
Aside from this particular team of scientists, a researcher from Kyoto University also revealed his plan to resurrect the species. Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth as far back as 150,000 years ago, and went extinct due to climate change and hunting by early humans.
Hell's yeah! One step closer to bringing back the Woolly in my lifetime! Contain yourself Tom...
In order to resurrect the massive species, the scientists will take an egg cell from an elephant, and remove the cell's nucleus, which is the part that contains most of the cell's genetic material. This will be replaced by a nucleus taken from the mammoth's somatic cell, effectively creating an egg cell that could one day develop into a baby mammoth. But before the researchers can actually do any of this, they first have to find tissues with undamaged genes, and restore the cells after thousands of years of being frozen.
Aside from this particular team of scientists, a researcher from Kyoto University also revealed his plan to resurrect the species. Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth as far back as 150,000 years ago, and went extinct due to climate change and hunting by early humans.
Hell's yeah! One step closer to bringing back the Woolly in my lifetime! Contain yourself Tom...
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Scientists to bring extinct woolly mammoth back to life with the help of elephants
14/03/2012 04:18:52 AM
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Mammoths had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction!
14/03/2012 03:32:42 PM
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No, we did. It's one of the first species we likely hunted to extinction. *NM*
15/03/2012 01:25:02 PM
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I had it it mind that it was more a result of climate change. *shrug* *NM*
17/03/2012 10:03:22 PM
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ugh.
14/03/2012 04:10:14 PM
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Our zoos hardly suffer from a shortage of food. *NM*
15/03/2012 07:19:36 AM
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First of all, yes, some zoos do. Secondly, woolly mammoths eat a LOT
15/03/2012 12:06:47 PM
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They are still herbivores, they can't be that expensive to feed
18/03/2012 10:16:22 PM
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Okay, let me take a look at the numbers.
19/03/2012 01:13:09 AM
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Remember this moment in history....
14/03/2012 10:21:02 PM
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I don't think you even need chaos theory to get a grasp of the unintended consequences... *NM*
14/03/2012 10:24:01 PM
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There's a big hole in their plan
14/03/2012 10:31:21 PM
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Seriously. "We have plans to clone an alien. All we need to do is find some alien DNA." *NM*
14/03/2012 10:53:52 PM
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I don't think finding aliens would be as hard as getting to them. *NM*
14/03/2012 11:35:21 PM
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