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South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth
An anonymous reader writes "Last year Russian researchers discovered a well-preserved mammoth thigh bone and announced plans to clone a mammoth from the bone marrow within — and they just signed a deal with South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to bring the project to fruition. The Sooam scientists plan to implant the nucleus of a woolly mammoth cell into an elephant egg in order to to create a mammoth embryo, which would then be placed in an elephant womb. 'This will be a really tough job,' Soaam reasearcher Hwang In-Sung said, 'but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals.'" Not to be confused with a similar mammoth effort at mammoth-cloning at Kyoto University.
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All the same, I must accept the possibility that the other posters put what they considered adequate thought into their replies before hitting "Submit," and I therefore expressly disclaim any implied judgement of their intent. Simultaneously, and conditional upon the previous condition evaluating as true, I must also concede that I find said posters to be of limited maturity.
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You might be (!)surprised to discover that I am a person not entirely unlike yourself, perhaps even with a somewhat similar history in some respects, just operating in a different sphere, and perhaps with different views on what is acceptable in the short term for the attainment of long term goals for $planetary_population. It would likely be nice for us to get in touch via alternate channels; for the moment, I'll leave this as an exercise for you.
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Please mod parent "redundant." The point was already made, and there is no need to senselessly attack someone who perhaps made a careless post.
Yes, I know this is Slashdot. Despite my present UID, I've been here since Rob started it as a glorified board. Yes, I operated BBSes in the 1980s. Yes, anyone who has a problem with this needs to get off my lawn. HAND.
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