Woolly Mammoth could be cloned by 2016

[Druidus-Logos]

I'm happy about this.

I'm somewhat amazed at the amount of people who are using Jurrasic Park as a reason why they should not do this.

This is valuable research if nothing else.

Yeah, it's a shame the number of ostriches with their heads in the sand over this subject.

[thewild]

How wonderful! Hope it works!

[BiffSplitkins]

I'm somewhat amazed at the amount of people who are using Jurrasic Park as a reason why they should not do this.

But everyone knows that Mammoths eventually evolve into velociraptors and hunt us all down and eat us.

On a serious side: I have always found the Woolly Mammoth the most interesting of all extinct creatures. I really hope they can clone one.

[Persia]

Nobody knows, maybe they colon them and then sell to the Chinese people for eating them in thier restaurants ... .

[Myles]

Nobody knows, maybe they colon them and then sell to the Chinese people for eating them in thier restaurants ... .

Was the misspelling of the word clone a play on words with your thought of the Chinese eating them?

[reggie2011]

i hardly think a mammoth would be any kind of risk to ecology after all its just another elephant and to be honest really isnt that interesting to begin with wow a hairy elefent how ..boring lol

[Penumbra]

Don't mean to be rude, but I always laugh when people point to things like Jurassic Park as proof for why we should not clone animals. It's a movie, guys. Fiction!

And at any rate (not sure on the science here), wouldn't this be a mammoth-elephant hybrid opposed to a full blown mammoth? I doubt they would be mass produced, and I really doubt they would release them into the wild, but I would love to see such a thing, to glimpse the past.

Frankly, I want to see this technology improve. I'd like to see a Thylacine in my time, as that animal's extinction really was caused by humans.

[Setton]

Don't mean to be rude, but I always laugh when people point to things like Jurassic Park as proof for why we should not clone animals. It's a movie, guys. Fiction!

And at any rate (not sure on the science here), wouldn't this be a mammoth-elephant hybrid opposed to a full blown mammoth? I doubt they would be mass produced, and I really doubt they would release them into the wild, but I would love to see such a thing, to glimpse the past.

Frankly, I want to see this technology improve. I'd like to see a Thylacine in my time, as that animal's extinction really was caused by humans.

Cloning usually works by taking the nucleus out of a fertilised egg cell and replacing it with - in this case - a mammoth nucleus. Since the nucleus contains something like 99.9% of the DNA, the result would be almost purely mammoth.

[Druidus-Logos]

Cloning usually works by taking the nucleus out of a fertilised egg cell and replacing it with - in this case - a mammoth nucleus. Since the nucleus contains something like 99.9% of the DNA, the result would be almost purely mammoth.

Indeed; the elephant is only a receptacle of the egg, which has had its DNA replaced completely by mammoth DNA. A mammoth from any womb is still a mammoth, not a hybrid just because it was carried in the body of another species.

[psyche101]

I second that. Why the hell not. Man has created so much death and different ways to kill people, some actualy whine about creating life. Bunch off fools. How many species go extinct every year due to man and people have the nerve to whine. I say we take some of Canada`s military budget aka 65 new f-14s sell one plane and make a thousand sq km pen in the arctic.

For those that think this is wrong, grow up. Jurrasic park was a movie

Indeed, lets hope warming does not send them extinct, as soon as we resurrect them though.

[psyche101]

i hardly think a mammoth would be any kind of risk to ecology after all its just another elephant and to be honest really isnt that interesting to begin with wow a hairy elefent how ..boring lol

I reckon they would be awesome to see. Some were bigger than elephants, imagine how many jumpers would be in just one shearing!

[psyche101]

Yes I too wish to see that. A few of the extinct Australian megafauna would be cool too.

It has got to be a shot in the arm for poor old Mike, he has been valiantly pursuing this for a very long time now. I really hope he realizes his dream.

[emokid]

Is the atmosphere we have today suitable for a mammoth?

[psyche101]

Is the atmosphere we have today suitable for a mammoth?

Yes. Wooly Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island to a recent 1650BC.

[Still Waters]

Clone a mammoth? Not so fast -

Reports from Japan suggest that long-extinct woolly mammoths could be cloned back into existence within five years, but don't hold your breath.

"C'mon, it'll never happen. Not in my lifetime," said Webb Miller, a Penn State computer scientist and genomicist who helped decipher the genetic code of a woolly mammoth.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/06/9254548-clone-a-mammoth-not-so-fast

[psyche101]

Clone a mammoth? Not so fast -

Reports from Japan suggest that long-extinct woolly mammoths could be cloned back into existence within five years, but don't hold your breath.

"C'mon, it'll never happen. Not in my lifetime," said Webb Miller, a Penn State computer scientist and genomicist who helped decipher the genetic code of a woolly mammoth.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/06/9254548-clone-a-mammoth-not-so-fast

Hrmmz, I am not so sure about that:

Australian researchers had to scrap plans to clone the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction, although they later succeeded in transferring part of a Tasmanian tiger gene into mouse embryos.

It was scrapped, Mike Archer received heavy opposition to his project, but it was started up again in 2005.

From Mikes page:

The Lazurus Project which aims to bring back another iconic extinct Australian animal, is now underway in conjunction with four universities and two medical research institutes. Significant progress to date (2009) includes reconstitution of the extinct genome and research underway now to enable embryonic development.

Link

[SameerPrehistorica]

I don't think its possible..There are reasons why different living things existed and died.You can't bring a prehistoric living thing to life which would suit this environment.

[HansBolman]

so...when are the cavewomen hookers going to be ready?