Mammoth could be reborn within four years

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If this happens, it would be a really awesome experience :) ... although he/she might get a bit lonely :whistle:

Daily Telegraph

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.

Now that hurdle has been overcome, Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, is reactivating his campaign to resurrect the species that died out 5,000 years ago.

"Now the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth," he told The Daily Telegraph.

He intends to use Dr Wakayama's technique to identify the nuclei of viable mammoth cells before extracting the healthy ones.

The nuclei will then be inserted into the egg cells of an African elephant, which will act as the surrogate mother for the mammoth.

Professor Iritani said he estimates that another two years will be needed before the elephant can be impregnated, followed by the approximately 600-day gestation period.

He has announced plans to travel to Siberia in the summer to search for mammoths in the permafrost and to recover a sample of skin or tissue that can be as small as 3cm square. If he is unsuccessful, the professor said, he will ask Russian scientists to provide a sample from one of their finds.

"The success rate in the cloning of cattle was poor until recently but now stands at about 30 per cent," he said. "I think we have a reasonable chance of success and a healthy mammoth could be born in four or five years."
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Jurassic Park :eek: but seriously, that would be way colter than a trip to the Kruger National Park :D
 
And so the cycle repeats. Our ‘fossil’ finds are the remnants of a Jurassic period Jurassic Park where the originators went extinct and their creations took-over. We are simply repeating history. A few million years from now people will be saying, “I know, let’s clone Mammoths and Dinosaurs and start a Jurassic Park.” Déjà vu?
 
Maybe the mammoths and dinosaurs will take over and in a few million years be sitting there wondering how to bring humans back...

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They should clone the kwagga.

It's just the single coolest name for an animal. Say it with me ... kwagga!
 
Garyvdh said:
I just want a mammoth steak! :p
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McD’s are investigating whether the permafrost preserved the Mammoth meat sufficiently well for a Mammoth burger. Incredibly ancient meat from extinct animals. A good selling point (expensive though). You can even turn a profit from extinct animals – thus propagating the grate Amurican way.
 
Why does he have to look for one?

09 Jul 2007
Researchers at Japan's Jikei University will soon be checking the mailbox for a cool package from Siberia -- the recently discovered frozen body of an ancient baby mammoth. The nearly complete body of the female calf, said to be one of the best-preserved specimens of frozen mammoth ever discovered, is estimated to have been less than one year old before it was preserved in ice about 10,000 years ago.
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http://pinktentacle.com/2007/07/frozen-baby-mammoth-headed-to-japan/
 
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