Japanese to ressurect extinct Wooly Mammoth

[Ashimar]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.

The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.

Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.

The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.

The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.

[Glaani]

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

Great article, I can't wait to see what they are able to do!

[Madigan]

Awesome quote from Jurassic Park. I actually look forward to this. I see it as progress while others see it as a perversion of nature and natural selection and have seen many a heated conversation result from topics such as this.

[Harrison]

They died out for a reason. We're fucking up big if we start pulling this shit off.

[Glaani]

"Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming. "


(Last Jurassic Park quote, I swear. I just can't help myself. :p )

[VictoryARC]

Cloning a mammoth to study and releasing a herd into the environment are 2 different things.

[Chanus]

Cloning a mammoth to study and releasing a herd into the environment are 2 different things.

Yeah, one's the intent and the other is the end result after horrible accidents!

[Uthgaard]

They died out for a reason. We're fucking up big if we start pulling this shit off.

People said the same thing about a Classic Everquest server.

[Seaweedpimp]

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j438/Sskape1/mammoth22.jpg

[Ashimar]

They died out for a reason. We're fucking up big if we start pulling this shit off.

Early humans (or barbarians, lol) hunted them to extinction. It was our fault, and maybe the Japanese feel obligated to correct the mistake.

[Omnimorph]

Moar velociraptors pls... i wanna hunt them as if i were pete postlethwaite.

[VictoryARC]

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j438/Sskape1/mammoth22.jpg

I lold XD

[Nedala]

They died out for a reason. We're fucking up big if we start pulling this shit off.

Why does your post not surprise me :confused:

[SlankyLanky]

not gonna work

[KilyenaMage]

Early humans (or barbarians, lol) hunted them to extinction. It was our fault, and maybe the Japanese feel obligated to correct the mistake.

The Japanese haven't apologized for their nazi-like WW2 atrocities....I highly doubt they care about the Mammoth.

More like they wanna say "silly westerners...asians are better at everything. now we can even resurrect dead species."

[xshayla701]

OMG mixed feelings

[Akame]

Jeff Goldblum
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...

Laura Dern
Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth...

[Slathar]

The Japanese haven't apologized for their nazi-like WW2 atrocities....I highly doubt they care about the Mammoth.

More like they wanna say "silly westerners...asians are better at everything. now we can even resurrect dead species."

lol at this post

[Stibe]

The Japanese haven't apologized for their nazi-like WW2 atrocities....I highly doubt they care about the Mammoth.

More like they wanna say "silly westerners...asians are better at everything. now we can even resurrect dead species."

Worst. Troll. Ever.

[Slathar]

Worst. Troll. Ever.

ya im pretty sure this guy Kilyena has something wrong with him. i think he might be autistic or have some sort of social maladjustment

he sends me PMs that are just ranting psycho jibberish. you just know he's fat as hell too

[bizzum]

Tourette's in typed form?

[karsten]

Cloning a mammoth to EAT and releasing a herd into the environment are 2 different things.

i agree and i am HUNGRY

[Omnimorph]

Mammoth burger... it practically sells itself.

[Akame]

Worst. Troll. Ever.

Maybe, but what they said was actually the most likely of reasons behind why they'd do it.

[Stibe]

Maybe, but what they said was actually the most likely of reasons behind why they'd do it.

Oh come on, The US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civilians in WWII and they are AGAINST cloneing things, so it cant be that.

[maegi]

Does anyone realize how big a wooly mammoth actually is/was? If this somehow works and the calf gets to maturity to be born...the mother will surely die or split open. I guess that's ok in the name of almighty science /end sarcasm

[Glaani]

Does anyone realize how big a wooly mammoth actually is/was? If this somehow works and the calf gets to maturity to be born...the mother will surely die or split open. I guess that's ok in the name of almighty science /end sarcasm

Not true. :)

[mimixownzall]

Don't the Japanese know that the world will end before then anyhow?

sigh.. dumb Japanese