Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years'

Telegraph [UK] ^ | 1/13/11 | Julian Ryall

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

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Mammoth told me there'd be days like this.

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[jwalsh07]

Well that’s great but when does hunting season open?

[americanophile]

...have you ever been charged by an elephant? It's very disconcerting.

[null and void]

How do you keep an elephant from charging?

[americanophile]

...drumroll

[null and void]

cancel his credit card.

[americanophile]

groan :)

[ApplegateRanch]

Time to buy another freezer.

[ApplegateRanch]

Maybe they can fertize a mouse egg with mammoth DNA and get a medium-sized mammoth. (A mammouse?)

Add in a little gene splicing from the cacao tree, and we could have chocolate mamousse.

[ApplegateRanch]

Wooly Mammoth good. T Rex bad.

SPECIESIST!

Besides, BOTH bad: neither cleaveth the hoof, nor cheweth the cud.

[1010RD]

Wait until the Enviros demand we reintroduce them to Yellowstone.

[GOYAKLA]

Take their Credit cards away.
I told you I was married and I’m older than dirt.

[Old Student]

“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.”

Good. You're responsible, YOU get to clean up after them! I've done enough of that for horses!

;)

[Redcitizen]

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Back in the saddle again...

[garjog]

"What could possibly go wrong....."

[wildbill]

I have been predicting this for several years on FR.

The Voices never lie.

[colorado tanker]

Pleistocene Park?

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe Freddy Cannon could tell us.