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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.
Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.
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Next we'll need to genetically engineer giants to herd these mammoths...
So I'm thinking the poor thing is just going to get overheated, give up, and die like the rest of his kind did. Korean short ribs anyone?
Until they figure out that mammoths are assholes and that there is another reason they are extinct.
Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.
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the elephant might go extinct like the rhino due to poachers. At least we'll have mammoths. >.>
I guess the optimist would go,"If we have the tech to do it for mammoths, we can get back other extinct life forms."
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How well can an elephant's womb support an animal of a different species? Even human babies born to human mothers are in danger if something as simple as the mother's Rh factor is different than the baby's. Surely implanting an animal of one species into a completely different species will run into problems with rejection?
I'm not sure how much I trust any scientist that thinks elephants are born out of eggs....
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Forget their nuclear capabilities. We now have a bigger problem
How long before the North deploys oliphants at the border to counter the mammoth threat?
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Looks like we have a somewhat kinky but definitely tough enough replacement for Bear Grylls.
...will it blend?
It will have elephant mitochondrial DNA, so it will be a Mammoth/elephant hybrid.
If they want a "real" mammoth (short of finding a female with viable eggs), they're going to have to replace the mitochondria also (and, no, midichlorians won't work either, although you'd end up with a very forceful animal), and keeping the egg alive while doing that has never been done, AFAIK.
Are they taking any precautions against the probability that the genome contains viral components just as ours does? If they cannot prove beforehand that no virus will start replicating from the Wolly Mammoth genome once they activate it, they should not be allowed to proceed.
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