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Topic: Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years
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juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 17, 2011 07:43 PM
  
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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Randall
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From: The Goober Galaxy
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posted January 18, 2011 10:13 AM
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juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted January 18, 2011 12:47 PM
I think it is sad... the only place a mammoth could survive is in a zoo or some science arena. What is the purpose? ------------------
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BearsArcher
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From: Arizona with Bear the Leo
Registered: Apr 2010
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posted January 19, 2011 02:12 PM
quote:
Originally posted by juniperb:
I think it is sad... the only place a mammoth could survive is in a zoo or some science arena. What is the purpose?
I agree Juni. I don't understand what purpose it can serve, not even in a scientific way, to create a mammoth. IP: Logged |
StarrofVenusGirl
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From: Down the Rabbit Hole
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted January 21, 2011 11:57 AM
I agree but I knew this would happen as soon as they found a perfectly preserved baby mammoth a few years ago. She was completely intact. I wonder if that's the same one they are using?IP: Logged |
Randall
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From: The Goober Galaxy
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posted January 25, 2011 10:44 AM
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Randall
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From: The Goober Galaxy
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posted February 03, 2011 09:57 AM
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