Sci/Tech Researchers Aim to Resurrect Mammoth in Five Years.

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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.

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C'mon, how can this be NOT awesome.

 

[Ninva]

Awesome!

 

[FireCat]

This is Not awesome! :thdown: Just poor mammoths

And they should know better than to mess around with nature!

 

[sqrage]

Why poor mammoth? And if you don't like messing around with nature then get off your computer and stop using electricity or anything that's a product of science.

Hell, even cooked food is messing with nature.

This is pretty cool, hopefully one day we'll have a zoo full of pre-historic animals. That'd be really mind-blowing.

 

[FireCat]

Why poor mammoth?

Well, they will not have much freedom and Who the hell want be born and put in a cage? What a life!

And if you don't like messing around with nature then get off your computer and stop using electricity or anything that's a product of science.

Mammoths it's a animal hmm and a comp,electricity it's Not an animal. huh

Btw: Our modern era, is very risky for the Mammoths health and well being. No?

It's all about pleasure!

 

[The Helper]

It blows my mind that we might be able to do this. Pure Awesomeness!

 

[Azlier]

Mammoths are possibly the worst creatures you can make zombies out of.

 

[Whitesock]

I would like to see this, yet trying to reincorporate them into today's natural systems is just dumb. They would make zoos mighty popular though.