Hum Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth?s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan?s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years. The scientists say they will extract DNA from a mammoth carcass that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an African elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo. The team is being led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan. He has built upon research from Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology, who successfully cloned a mouse from cells that had been frozen for 16 years, to devise a technique to extract egg nuclei without damaging them, according to the Yomiuri report. The U.S. researchers are in vitro fertilization experts. They, along with Kinki University professor Minoru Miyashita, will be responsible for implanting the mammoth embryo into an African elephant, the report said. more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Order_66 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Ok, then what? is there a need for mammoths? food perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoredBozirini Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Ok, then what? is there a need for mammoths? food perhaps? New mammoth army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Great idea! I bet they will feel right at home in the climate of the 21st century... These animals went instinct for a reason and personally I think it's a really bad idea to reintroduce species that have been long gone for thousands of years. In this case it also doesn't seem to serve a real purpose beyond doing so for the sake of doing so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Order_66 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yeah, or they were watching 10,000 BC and decided to use them for labor lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Ok, then what? is there a need for mammoths? food perhaps? Mammoth burgers anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quattrone Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Can't wait to see if this will be a reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowanvista Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I hope this will work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Majesticmerc MVC Posted January 17, 2011 MVC Share Posted January 17, 2011 I heard about when they tried this with dinosaurs, the lawyer got eaten on the crapper by a T-Rex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Mammoth burgers anyone? Available at WalMart :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 17, 2011 Supervisor Share Posted January 17, 2011 Totally called this in the other recent thread (that I can't find anymore). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted January 17, 2011 Veteran Share Posted January 17, 2011 All I can think of is Mammoth wars :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-KJ Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I'd love to have a mammoth or two in my backyard. I can take it for walks in the park and play frisbee with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frylock86 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Erm.... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Sesame Street reality show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted January 17, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 17, 2011 I heard about when they tried this with dinosaurs, the lawyer got eaten on the crapper by a T-Rex. LOL! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikeTobacco Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Ok, then what? is there a need for mammoths? food perhaps? If they can do it with animals that are already extinct, this will give merit to setting up a database of dna to preserve all creatures we have today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji@nBing Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yes!! DO IT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perochan Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 how about go clone some species that are about to go extinct... not extincted mammoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quattrone Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 how about go clone some species that are about to go extinct... not extincted mammoth. That will be a good idea but mammoths will be a busine$$ success than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art3x Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I enjoy the jump from perfectly lab, frozen mice that are 16 years old to 12000 year old, fell in a freaking glacier, mammoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 they find out their data was all wrong and they're voracious meat eaters and they multiply like rabbits! DOH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOWFAS Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 how about go clone some species that are about to go extinct... not extincted mammoth. Actually, cloning species in danger of extinction wouldn't help them I think : if you clone you don't create genetic diversity, and thus you loose the advantage of sexual reproduction and weaken the species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Great idea! I bet they will feel right at home in the climate of the 21st century... These animals went instinct for a reason and personally I think it's a really bad idea to reintroduce species that have been long gone for thousands of years. In this case it also doesn't seem to serve a real purpose beyond doing so for the sake of doing so. Science is all about exploration and pushing boundaries. We wouldn't have half the technology or knowledge that we have today if scientists hadn't "done things for the sake of doing so." That said.. I don't like how the lives of these animals are being messed with <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farstrider Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Great idea! I bet they will feel right at home in the climate of the 21st century... These animals went instinct for a reason and personally I think it's a really bad idea to reintroduce species that have been long gone for thousands of years. In this case it also doesn't seem to serve a real purpose beyond doing so for the sake of doing so. From the second that man impacted this planet we have been the major cause of animals, plants etc disappearing from this incredible place that we share! Without diversity we lose everything! Dodo meets man: Discovered 1598, extinct by 1681. Less than a 100 years to wipe out a species that took millions of years to evolve! Poor little blighter's didn't deserve that sort of treatment I am sure! To learn and perhaps restore or save other animals I think that this sort of research is incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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