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If true, very cool.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...est=latestnews
Japanese and Russian scientists might be able to clone a mammoth after confirming the presence of well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thighbone found in Siberian permafrost, Kyodo News reported.
The scientists from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Kinki University's graduate school will begin research next year to regenerate the huge mammal, which became extinct about 10,000 years ago.
They will transplant nuclei from the bone marrow cells into elephant egg cells whose nuclei were removed through a type of cloning. The process can create an embryo that can be planted into an elephant womb for birth.
For scientists involved in the research since the late 1990s, finding nuclei with undamaged mammoth genes has been a challenge, AFP reported.
But the discovery in August of the well-preserved thighbone in Siberia increased the chances of a successful cloning.
If true, very cool.
The Russians need to clone bread. Their people aren't doing real well.
Elephants are pregnant for 2 years before they give birth, and it will still be 1/2 elephant. Then you keep watering down the elephant line, until it's been bred out correct? That could take... forever.
Pleistocene Park?
Not sure about that. It might be 100% mammoth.
Mammoth's are extinct for a reason. Guess these scientists don't read Michael Crichton.
Actually it would definitely be 100% mammoth.
I see you don't understand cloning.
They would likely use the mammoth DNA in an elephant egg. The existing chromosomes of the elephant would be removed. When born, it would be a 100% clone of the mammoth. Except for the fingerprints of course.
It would definitely be cool if this could be pulled off. Humans are most likely why they became extinct so it would be nice if we could bring them back.
That ing squirrel is why they became extinct.
We will just kill the species off again, what's the point
You don't mean this innocent guy do you?
It will be 100% mammoth and probably not live very long. In fact, has there been a cloned animal thats has lived a normal lifespan?
Very cool though, would be a trip to have a mammoth steak to taste what our ancestors tasted.
Yawn.... report back to me when they clone a T-Rex.
That's him. I seent it.You don't mean this innocent guy do you?
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