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Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-piece-at-a-time dept.

Clark Schultz writes The premise behind Jurassic Park just got a bit more real after scientists in South Korea said they are optimistic they can extract enough DNA from the blood of a preserved woolly mammoth to clone the long-extinct mammal. The ice-wrapped woolly mammoth was found last year on an island off of Siberia. The development is being closely watched by the scientific community with opinion sharply divided on the ethics of the project.

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  1. obligatory Jurassic Park quote: by origin2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

    --- Dr. Ian Malcolm

  2. That's nothing by DumbSwede · · Score: 5, Funny

    North Korea just anounced they've already cloned one (and T-Rex as well).

    --
    Letter To Iran
  3. Re:Ethics? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear wooly mammoth is a little gamy.

    20,000 years of freezer burn will do that I suppose.

  4. Re:Exciting! by Dave+Emami · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope something comes of this.

    I predict at least one South Korean cavalry division mounted on war-mammoths.

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    "The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."