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Old 11-25-2008, 11:21 PM   #104 (permalink)
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Scientists Successfully Clone Mammoth

Well, no. At least not yet. But we may be closer than you might think.

"Recently a Japanese team of scientists at the Riken Center for Development Biology successfully cloned a mouse with the DNA that was acquired from a mouse that had been dead and frozen for 16 years."

Scientists Successfully Clone a Mammoth | Charles Hamel.com

"This paves the road for cloning other animals that have been extinct, but found in the frozen permafrost in Siberia. The same Japanese team of scientists have also cloned a embryo from freeze dried cells, the next project to work on for them is attempting to clone the now-extinct Japanese wolf from a stuffed specimen."

I guess part of the point is to discuss this and make some rational decisions now before the scientists get along too far.


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