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South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth

Posted by timothy on from the looking-forward-to-the-sweaters dept.

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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  1. Mass production by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.

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    1. Re:Mass production by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And the first questions after they have successfully cloned a mammoth by the people will be, "How does it taste?"
       

  2. At Last... by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.

    I will FINALLY be able to get those giant, car tipping Bar-B-Que ribs Fred Flintstone caused me to lust after for so very long!

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