Researchers aim to resurrect Mammoth in five years

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[Scythian]

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.

The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.

Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.

The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.

The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.

[Scythian]

bump

[ken5050]

Won’t mammoth ‘mammoth” flatulence INCREASE global warming?

[Marty62]

And the purpose is what?
Tourism?

Well H why not a T-Rex?

They have already made 3 movies about this.

[Puppage]

But won’t their farts add to global warming? Should I be outraged?

[MEGoody]

Just because something CAN be done, doesn’t mean it should be.

[Scythian]

I view this as a militarization move ...

[central_va]

I got your resurrected wooly mammoth right here.

[Oatka]

Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.
The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.

Shades of Sitchin's "The Twelfth Planet"!

[al_c]

Well H why not a T-Rex?

Read the article ....

Some mammoth remains still retain usable tissue samples, making it possible to recover cells for cloning, unlike dinosaurs, which disappeared around 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils.

[PIF]

Shown: Primelephas gomphotheroides became extinct 23 million years ago, not Wooley Mammoths which became extinct 11,000 years ago and is the species under concideration

[PIF]

Partial dino DNA has been extracted, but is fragmentary and cannot be used to revive dinos. Mammoth DNA comes from the flash frozen carcasses in the Siberian tundra. Extracting DNA from these carcasses would be similar to extracting the DNA from a flash frozen salmon. The trick is getting the material into a modern elephant embryo and gestating it.

[Heavyrunner]

Yes, this is why in Jurassic Park, they relied on dinosaur blood trapped in amber-encased mosquitos.

While there are traces of soft tissue from some dinosaurs in some fossil finds, to my knowledge, there is no complete, intact DNA upon which a dinosaur reconstruction could be based.

Even then, Mammoths have a genetic half-brother still extant today in the modern Elephant...We would be hard-pressed to find a modern egg capable to bearing a dinosaur hatchling to term. It would have to be artificial, in all likelihood.

[Don Corleone]

like dinosaurs, which disappeared around 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils.

Sort of like conservative Republicans. /sarc

[ßuddaßudd]

I wonder how they taste?

[NeverForgetBataan]

Well Japan has to do SOMETHING to protect itself from China.

[Emperor Palpatine]

If were going to bring back any long-dead critters....

Why not George Washington and James Madison???????

[Question Liberal Authority]

I wonder how they taste?

First, they stomp on the lawyer. Then they use their long nose to shovel the remains into their mouth.

[Renderofveils]

I wonder how they taste?

Depends on what they eat. Speaking of which, I guess they've figured out the dietary and environmental requirements of growing mammoths already, or do they plan on just reproducing new ones until they get it right?

[texmexis best]

They apparently had a specialized diet that was common close to the ice of Siberia as late as 10,000 years ago. Not sure what that fodder would be.

Mastodons apparently had a specialized diet eating Cedar.