Cloning Mammoths

Posted by michael on Thursday July 17, 2003 @06:59AM from the elephantine-problems dept.

Anonym Feigling writes "For your consideration... An article over at the New Zealand Herald discusses some of the challenges a japanes team faces as it attemps to develop a system to create a clone from 20,000 year-old mammoth tissue samples discovered in Siberia. It seems to me that shortly after death, any animal's/plant's "cellular repair mechanisms" (for the lack of a better...) will fail, and thus the probability of finding a single cell with perfectly intact DNA from which to create a clone is pretty well zero. Interesting stuff, but it seems that practical considerations (think code rot) would make it difficult."

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Editars? Editoors? Edit... by Jonsey · 2003-07-17 08:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

An article over at the New Zealand Herald discusses some of the challenges a japanes team faces

It seems the Japanese should not persue cloning an extinct species until they learn to spell a bit better. To prove my case, I reference "Yatta!".
's so easy, happy a-go a-lucky, easy rider, salad, the Ma-all, we didn't eat goo goo goo goo, us us us us.

Or maybe it was a perfectly innocent slip off of the shift key, followed by a missing single letter.
All a matter of perspective. ; )

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