Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next? - how about Ted Williams?

reuters ^ | Mon Nov 3, 2008 5:30pm EST

[JoeProBono]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species..."There is hope in bringing Ted Williams back, after all," cloning and stem cell expert John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania said in an e-mail. The family of Williams, the Boston Red Sox hitter, had his body frozen by cryogenics firm Alcor after he died in 2002..."

[JoeProBono]

[TomGuy]

Cloned mice?

Don’t we have enough, as it is?

Maybe they can clone flies, too.

[JoeProBono]

Ted Williams

[cripplecreek]

Walt Disney should have quit when he was a head.

[JoeProBono]

“Maybe they can clone flies, too.”

Yea, and mosquitoes

[China Clipper]

Didin't they do this already? hohum, old news..

Move along...

[Domandred]

Lets clone a few dinosaurs! We can put them on an island zoo and sell tickets. We’ll make millions. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

[China Clipper]

didin’t=didn’t

[JoeProBono]

"Walt Disney should have quit when he was a head."

I thought he did

[Vaquero]

“The Splendid (albeit frozen) Splinter”

[6SJ7]

It’s quite a step up from cloning a mouse frozen for 16 years and a wooly mammoth frozen for 40,000 years. After 40,000 years you’re dealing with wicked freezer burn.

[JoeProBono]

[SunkenCiv]

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[bigheadfred]

Mammoths

Are these people living under a rock? Haven't they heard of global warming? :-)

And just where would you put them anyway? On the menu?:-)

[RichInOC]

“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“K-k-kkkkkkkkk-k-kkk...”

[WellyP]

Look at his right heel. Ted was still ready to hit!

[djf]

To bring back the mammoth, IMHO that would be spectacular.

Whatta beast!!

[JoeProBono]

““Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”

Are you pondering cheese sticks?

[JoeProBono]

"Mammoths.. just where would you put them anyway?"

In the Alps

[Forward the Light Brigade]

They will not clone a Mammoth first—they will clone a passenger pigeon. We have one that died in 1924 frozen and we can use modern pigeons as the eggs. I heard they tasted good maybe they could be grown and harvested for restaurants. That’s why they went extinct—they were too good to eat.