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Russia: New laboratory to study mammoth cloning
BBC News ^ | 9/1/2015

Posted on 09/01/2015 10:39:31 AM PDT by McGruff

Russia has opened a laboratory in Siberia devoted to the study of extinct animal DNA in the hope of creating clones, it's reported.

The new lab in Yakutsk - often called the world's coldest city - will "seek out live cells with a view to cloning", says Semen Grigoryev, director of the Mammoth Museum at the city's Northeastern Federal University. He tells Ogonek magazine that "the priority is to look into bringing back the mammoth", adding that the Beijing Institute of Genomics and South Korea's Sooam Biotech company, which has pioneered dog cloning, will be involved in the study.

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To: McGruff

Russian mammoth cloning...happens every summer on the beaches of Black Sea resorts...


21 posted on 09/03/2015 5:04:14 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: McGruff

What are the odds that a man named semen would be involved in cloning.


22 posted on 09/04/2015 7:19:18 AM PDT by 762X51
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