Posted on 01/13/2011 7:32:15 PM PST by Nachum
The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life in as little as four years thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology. Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, was successful in cloning a mouse from the cells of another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years.
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What could possibly go wrong.....
I learn to nap flint, tie to stick.
Anybody know flint fire magic?
Mammoth recipe at Emeril’s good.
I think this is cool. Let’s see it work.
Yep. A good idea.
Wooly Mammoth good. T Rex bad.
Yep. A good idea.
Well, the GOP was extinct for the past 2 years so why not?
OK, I’ll say it, The mouse that roared.
were those mammouth ribs that turned over the flintstones car at the end of every show?
Finally someone listened to me! This is the greatest thing ever. I forsee a world where we all ride mammoths to work instead of driving.
...just in time to become the perfect mascot for a paleo-conservative party. It is providence.
“Life finds a way.”
Two-fer:
GGG
plu
Catastrophe!
Good one lol
Anybody who clones a mammoth should spend the rest of his life having to clean up after it.
I’ll laugh when they clone a mammoth and it grows up we all learn mammoths are not physically capable of enduring cold weather.
I have visions of the Flintstones at the drive in eatery.
When Jurassic Park came out, I remember reading a spate of articles addressing the possibility of bringing extinct animals back to life. The consensus was that it wouldn’t happen because of ethics.
I thought these claims were naive because ethics doesn’t matter, in terms of whether or not something will be done. Knowledge is too wide spread, and eventually someone will do it.
I’d be surprised if someone has not already cloned a human being. I’m also surprised that someone has not attempted to clone a dodo bird or a passenger pigeon.
They can implant fertilized eggs in the mammoth’s closest living relative, the elephant. The gestation period should be quite similar.
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