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The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the
by endtwist 13y ago
The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy."
Cloning wooly mammoths! Now that is cool.
- themckman 13y agoHold onto your butts...
- mistermcgruff 13y agoI say this line nearly every chance I get. I find it's useful in almost every situation where the return button need be pressed.
- hammock 13y agoAn extinct ibex was successfully cloned in 2009 using the same technology. It died shortly after birth due to breathing problems. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_ibex#Cloning_project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_ibex#Cloning_project
- uvdiv 13y agoThe line before that is even more interesting: Stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk's private bioengineering laboratory confirmed he is poised to make a bid to return the extinct Siberian mammoth to the planet. Hwang Woo-suk is an extremely famous scientific fraud. http://www.time.com/time/covers/asia/0,16641,20060109,00.html http://www.time.com/time/covers/asia/0,16641,20060109,00.htm... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/11/28-01.html http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/11/28-01.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk SEOUL, South Korea — Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds. A judge sentenced him to a suspended two-year prison term, saying Dr. Hwang had shown remorse and had not taken research money for personal use. Dr. Hwang was once hailed as a national hero in the South. His school, Seoul National University, disowned him in 2005, saying that he had fabricated the papers he had published to global acclaim.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoOne wonders though, his research was shown to be fraudulent but is his skill fraudulent? I mean guy the might be an excellent cell biologist that tried to short cut his way to fame and got caught, or he might be a complete fraud and not even be a passable biologist. Trying to find stuff about the man is difficult through all the articles about his downfall.
- 27182818284 13y agoI remember reading about that plan when I was a kid. Twenty years later, I'm still all for it, but when articles like this appear I don't hold my breath either.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoThe problem here is, we don't have land for mammoths. Mammoths need tundra steppes to live on subarctic grains, and they all converted to unproductive swampy tundra :( There is a project to recreate tundra steppes tho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
- ceejayoz 13y agoThat's only a problem for getting them back into the wild. I'd suspect cloned mammoths would be a zoo feature first.