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Researchers aim to resurrect Mammoth in five years
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Posted on 01/18/2011 8:21:13 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cloning; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths
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To: SunkenCiv

Another Mammoth ping.


21 posted on 01/18/2011 9:08:11 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Scythian

I think.. dangerous stuff. They clone this and then the pandora’s box is wide open... what and who is next?


22 posted on 01/18/2011 9:12:50 AM PST by BigFinn (isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Ha lol


23 posted on 01/18/2011 9:13:50 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: Scythian

Michael Crichton rolls in his grave.


24 posted on 01/18/2011 9:14:15 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Scythian
They already exist...........


25 posted on 01/18/2011 9:15:48 AM PST by OB1kNOb (You are free to choose your actions, but never the resulting consequences.)
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To: Scythian

Great. Now instead of worrying about the anacondas moving up from Florida and dropping on us—and the killer bees attacking us from the attic—we can start worrying about resurrected T. Rexes (T. Reges? T. Regis? I knew I shouldn’t doze through Latin class) breaking through the door.


26 posted on 01/18/2011 9:16:19 AM PST by Savage Beast ("The truth has no agenda..." -Surfer)
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To: ken5050

Let’s look on the bright side: We can stop worrying about the snail darters and spotted owls—and can even kill a rattlesnake if it crawls into one of the children’s beds. The endangered species list will be nothing more than a set of DNA samples.


27 posted on 01/18/2011 9:20:15 AM PST by Savage Beast ("The truth has no agenda..." -Surfer)
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To: BigFinn

The bible speaks of strange creatures in the end times. I use to see these as symbolic of todays technology....but honestly with the dna/gene stuff going on today might be rogue labs and science could be doing all sorts of things we might one day see. Could be a stretch saying so but not impossible as I see it.


28 posted on 01/18/2011 9:20:15 AM PST by caww
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To: Scythian

I view this as a militarization move ...

Ahhh...The Clone Wars

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29 posted on 01/18/2011 9:25:41 AM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Scythian

I could see a future episode of Japanese Iron Chef where the Chairman Kaga introduces the theme ingredient....mammoth.


30 posted on 01/18/2011 9:38:56 AM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: OB1kNOb
Dammit. Beat me to it. I was going to post... "Why wait 5 yrs when we could get Rosie Odonnell for a box of doughnuts tomorrow."
31 posted on 01/18/2011 9:40:31 AM PST by domeika
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To: Scythian

when virtually all zoologists and climatologists agree there is not a single place on the planet where they could actually survive.....BRILLIANT!!


32 posted on 01/18/2011 9:48:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Scythian

"'Oooh, ahhh.' That's how it always starts. Then later there's the running and the screaming." —Dr. Ian Malcolm


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

33 posted on 01/18/2011 9:55:08 AM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: Marty62

There is no point in doing this. It is a bad idea, just like those three movies, lol.

Species are gone for good reasons, including ones that are no longer around due to “human influence.” We are part of this natural world too.

Where are all the libs on this one? Aren’t they always arguing that mother nature is the master and has all the answers and we should never interfere? Hmmm


34 posted on 01/18/2011 10:09:45 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (Infidel Inside)
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To: 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

A little correction for you. Shown: Mumakil, the fictional elephant-like creatures described by J.R.R. Tolkein decades before primelephas were presented in scientific literature.

35 posted on 01/18/2011 10:16:00 AM PST by upstanding
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To: caww

“The bible speaks of strange creatures in the end times. I use to see these as symbolic of todays technology....”

Symbolic? The Bible is the Holy Word of God and is the Truth. There is no symbolism in the Bible. I see far too much denial of Biblical truths at FR. That is blasphemy.


36 posted on 01/18/2011 10:16:49 AM PST by Greenbow (Trust in God.)
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To: texmexis best
Mastodons apparently had a specialized diet eating Cedar.

For a moment, I read that as mastodons ate cheddar.


37 posted on 01/18/2011 10:24:41 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

As I said. Watch a big touriam campaign if it succeeds.


38 posted on 01/18/2011 10:25:27 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: The Comedian

"This one's got a bad case of freezer burn, Jim!"

39 posted on 01/18/2011 10:29:48 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: Scythian
Wooly mammoth socks!

Woooohoooo!

40 posted on 01/18/2011 10:33:43 AM PST by Allegra (You're a towel.)
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