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Check out this article from Forteantimes.com.
Yikes didn't these people watch Jurassic Park???
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Living Mammoth Cells Discovered, Cloning Project Possible
[Wednesday, February 05, 2003] Discovered in Russia last summer, the well-preserved legs of a mammoth have yielded living cells that could allow for a cloning project to bring the creature back.
"We consider these cells conditionally alive," says Vladimir Repin, who led the research team. "The inner structure of these cells is undamaged."
The team is reporting the discovery of subcutaneous cellular tissue containing living cells with intact nuclei.
Japanese biologists hope to clone mammoths, and if the nuclei contain intact DNA then this could be possible.
Repin says that the cells were preserved after being extracted from the mammoth body.
That happened last summer, when an international paleontology expedition discovered mammoth legs -- complete with muscles, skin and reddish fur -- frozen in soil in northern Siberia.
The legs were washed out with a water jet, placed in a freezer and transported to the Museum of Mammoth in Yakutia.
Yikes didn't these people watch Jurassic Park???
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Living Mammoth Cells Discovered, Cloning Project Possible
[Wednesday, February 05, 2003] Discovered in Russia last summer, the well-preserved legs of a mammoth have yielded living cells that could allow for a cloning project to bring the creature back.
"We consider these cells conditionally alive," says Vladimir Repin, who led the research team. "The inner structure of these cells is undamaged."
The team is reporting the discovery of subcutaneous cellular tissue containing living cells with intact nuclei.
Japanese biologists hope to clone mammoths, and if the nuclei contain intact DNA then this could be possible.
Repin says that the cells were preserved after being extracted from the mammoth body.
That happened last summer, when an international paleontology expedition discovered mammoth legs -- complete with muscles, skin and reddish fur -- frozen in soil in northern Siberia.
The legs were washed out with a water jet, placed in a freezer and transported to the Museum of Mammoth in Yakutia.
Correct me if I'm wrong, when they clone don't they inject the DNA of something into the fertalized egg cell of a compatible or same species?
They could do this with an elephant. There were reports of elephant throwbacks in the far east who have the signature lump on the head like mammoths. So the two should be very compatible.
I think it would have the same antibodies of the mother wouldn't it? It will be developing on her blood. Her building blocks. Just arranged in a slightly different configuration.
And to make just one animal wouldn't be bad. They just shouldn't try to bring back the species. It died off for a reason. And I don't think man killed them off either.
This would help further the technology to help save species that we are killing off like tigers. We may be able to bring a species back by using cloning and a cousin of the subject species. If this all works out of course.
They could do this with an elephant. There were reports of elephant throwbacks in the far east who have the signature lump on the head like mammoths. So the two should be very compatible.
I think it would have the same antibodies of the mother wouldn't it? It will be developing on her blood. Her building blocks. Just arranged in a slightly different configuration.
And to make just one animal wouldn't be bad. They just shouldn't try to bring back the species. It died off for a reason. And I don't think man killed them off either.
This would help further the technology to help save species that we are killing off like tigers. We may be able to bring a species back by using cloning and a cousin of the subject species. If this all works out of course.
They do use an egg from a donor animal however the nucleus is removed from the donor egg and replaced with the nucleus of the animal you are attempting to clone. When the nucleus of the egg is removed it also removes any genitic material of the donor which would include the antibodies that have built up through generations. The placenta blood could provide some antibodies but not those passed through genetics.