Posted on 03/12/2019 2:02:38 PM PDT by ETL
Cells from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago have begun to show "signs of biological [activity]" after they were implanted in mouse cells.
However, researchers caution that it's unlikely the extinct creatures will walk the Earth again anytime soon.
The research, published in Scientific Reports, details how a well-preserved woolly mammoth, found in 2011 in the Siberian permafrost, has begun to show some activity.
"Until now many studies have focused on analyzing fossil DNA and not whether they still function," Miyamoto added.
The study's abstract reveals "[i]n the reconstructed oocytes, the mammoth nuclei showed the spindle assembly, histone incorporation and partial nuclear formation; however, the full activation of nuclei for cleavage was not confirmed."
However, there were varying levels of DNA damage done, which the researchers said "were comparable to those of frozen-thawed mouse sperm and were reduced in some reconstructed oocytes."
While some evidence of biological processes were seen, the damage the elements had on the cells are not enough for bringing the mammoth back to life, eschewing any kind of "Jurassic Park-style resurrection" that many have hoped for, Miyamoto said.
"We have also learned that damage to cells was very profound.
We are yet to see even cell divisions.
I have to say we are very far from recreating a mammoth."
Woolly mammoths went extinct more than 4,000 years ago, with some scientists believing they died off from the changing climate and human hunters.
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Absolutely... That would be my concern. They might also be reconstructing hitch hikers we truly don’t need. It is a BAD concept, it’s over let it be...
Sounds like a motto for the Mad Scientists Union.
So, if science can create brain eating zombies they should create brain eating zombies?
+1
You approve of the work of Unit 731 and Dr. Mengele?
Anyway, I know at least one high fence game preserve in Texas where they're champing at the bit to sell the trophy fee on the first woolly mammoth for the killing in nearly 4000 years. That resurrection thing is toothpaste that won't go back in the tube.
“GMO human clones coming soon.”
Good.
Only reason I didn’t have kids is that I couldn’t specify them, like in GATTACA.
“A mouse with a trunk and tusks if we’re lucky.”
Nope, you’re getting a mammoth with beady eyes, teeth that never stop growing, and an insatiable appetite for cheese.
In the extinction reason they left out ‘loss of habitat’.
That always enters into the equation. :-)
Meh, a woolly mammoth isn’t exactly going to escape and destroy Los Angeles like some kinda T-Rex. There’s a chick mentality out there that spends their life terrified of cool stuff like this.
Bring back the mammoth!
If anyone is real worried about them I can show them how to strike two special rocks together to produce a sharp edge.
The quaqqa has been brought back from the dead. But that was selective breeding of characteristics always present in the plains zebra.
There is no living mammoth to breed back to. Reviving the quaqqa was child’s play compared to what it would take to bring the mammoth back to life again.
All of that will remain speculation for the foreseeable future.
Like abortion?
It’s not fear of the Woolly Mammoth; it’s what comes afterward, resurrecting things and people who are better-off extinct, than alive.
Nefarious messing with DNA is a bad road to go down, yet much can be gained from constructive experimentation. All kinds of medical and life-betterment and extension achievements are possible.
I’d drop both that Mammoth and T-Rex with my .50cal, and BBQ them. I can’t imagine gutting, skinning and field-dressing that Mammoth or Rex, but you’re invited to help and eat your brains out.
Hey! Have you ever looked at Helen Thomas and Rosie O’Donnell? Proof positive that the Wooly Mammoths did NOT die out.
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