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Woolly Mammoth Clone? Russian And South Korean Scientists Sign Deal To Bring Extinct Beast Back To Life

Woolly Mammoth

Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 13/03/2012 14:02 Updated: 14/03/2012 15:16

Russian and South Korea scientists have teamed up to recreate a woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked the earth some 4,500 years ago.

The deal was signed on Tuesday by Vasily Vasiliev, of North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic and stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, AFP revealed.

The team aim to get to work on thawed remains of the extinct mammal recovered after global warming thawed Siberia’s permafrost.

The mammoth’s tissues are to be cloned by using eggs taken from a modern Indian elephant, the Korea Herald reported.

Once the tissues have undergone a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant.

Hwang lost face in the international scientific community in 2005 when his breakthrough human cloning research involving embryonic stem cells was found to have been faked.

He is also responsible for creating the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005, an achievement which was independently confirmed.

Last year Hwang and his team unveiled eight cloned coyotes in October last year.

Sooam specialises in dog cloning, and claims: “Cloning technology is possible at Sooam for any dog no matter its age, size, and breed. Sooam not only performs dog cloning research, but we also heal the broken hearts.”


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Russian and South Korea scientists have teamed up to recreate a woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked the earth some 4,500 years ago. The deal was signed on Tuesday by Vasily ...
Russian and South Korea scientists have teamed up to recreate a woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked the earth some 4,500 years ago. The deal was signed on Tuesday by Vasily ...
 
 
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05:24 PM on 04/06/2012
Best spending the money on fighting cancer,
and other ongoing diseases, of our present times.
wes
05:17 AM on 04/06/2012
honey could you go and milk the mammoth?
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bsgraves1
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02:30 PM on 04/04/2012
Why not clone some species that are in real danger of becoming like our friend, Yuka here. Just a thought...why bring back a species that won't be able to survive in today's climates, and save some polar bears or something.
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02:09 PM on 04/04/2012
woolies being apart of our daily diet again..???...i bet the chinese cant wait to get there hands on one.?..mabe you might even here of a Mc.woolie..ha ha...so long as the hoodies dont replce there pitbull type breeds with em ?.i see no probs...but i cant ever se them as being guide dogs for the blind though..??..kool...luv it..XXXX
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conservativewhitemale
Silence is the language of God. Zip it.
12:52 PM on 04/04/2012
Who wouldn't go to the circus that had one of these in a clown costume, kicking colored balls?
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SSGreyalexandro
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05:09 AM on 03/26/2012
About they clone something that can live in today's world ? All this global warming talk and were cloning woolly mammoths ?
09:05 PM on 03/17/2012
Is the United States cloning anything? Of course not. Eight years of W set us back and now other countries will be the leaders and we will follow them humbly. While we debate 'creationism' and other nonsense and assume our place as the laughing stock of the world, countries we used to laugh at have surpassed us. Our oligarchy is weakening education so that we will all be slaves to the 1%, but while we build 'creationism' museums Russian scientists in Antarctica are at the cutting edge of science and the Europeans have CERN. How embarrassing!
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PhloxJeana
Never baptize a cat.
12:04 AM on 03/18/2012
If god had wanted us to have woolly mammoths, he had made room for them on the ark. : )
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diana68
02:04 PM on 04/04/2012
lol
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swords-r-us
03:17 PM on 04/04/2012
Science, what's that? At my daughter's elementary school they just teach how to take a multiple choice test, thanks the village idiot president, Bush.
01:21 AM on 03/17/2012
Let sleeping woollies lie, I say. Dr. Hwang might recall the creature created by a certain Dr. Frankenstein.
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torriee
08:28 PM on 03/16/2012
Cool - woolies in Siberia again
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Alexodia
I support gay rights and breathable air.
03:36 PM on 03/16/2012
Wait till the fundies hear of this. We are playing god. Mwahahahah
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12:49 PM on 03/16/2012
"Scientists 'To Clone Woolly Mammoth' "
Shouldn’t someone take them aside, and explain global warming?
Or is the idea to perfect a method, by which Aliens could one day resurrect us?

"woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked,"
and inadvertently influenced the climate of, the earth. Some 4,500 years ago.

"The team aim to get to work on thawed remains of the extinct mammal recovered after global warming thawed Siberia’s permafrost."
Exert from the News of the Universe some millennia hence: The team aim to get to work on thawed remains of an extinct human. Recovered from the permafrost compartment of a chillier cabinet, in a relative Time Team excavated big a**ed super store.

"Once the tissues have undergone a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of "
the nearest living relative with a comparable intellect. An Orang-utan.

"Last year Hwang and his team unveiled eight cloned coyotes in October last year.
A neat trick. But only if he can tell without looking, which one has been removed from the pack.
10:37 AM on 03/16/2012
This was a creature that sadly died out due to its changing habitat many thousands of years ago.
As a species we are already wrecking the habitat we live in, but are prepared to bring back a long dead and extinct species to live in this wrecked habitat? Whats this creature going to be, a do exibition?
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PhloxJeana
Never baptize a cat.
12:06 AM on 03/18/2012
Yep. They can't bring back the species, only identical copies of the one they're taking genetic material from.
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08:39 AM on 03/16/2012
This is just silly.

There is no way that intact nuclei with undamaged chromosomes can be isolated from a 10,000 yr old sample. This is quite simply a farce ...
05:41 PM on 03/19/2012
Um, except the fact that DNA have absolutely survived intact in even older material:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science/
Sableknows
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02:58 AM on 03/16/2012
After they master that one they can try to bring back the Logical Liberal. Should be interesting to come up with the DNA for that one, though.
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Alexodia
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03:38 PM on 03/16/2012
Id bet its harder to bring back a reasonable Conservative tho. Us moderates lost hope in that when the fundies killed the Republican Party.
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04:44 PM on 03/16/2012
So you just came to this science article to hurl insults, bring up partisan bickering and drag the conversation into the dirt. At least the cave man has not gone extinct.
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bbriani3842
400+ yrs of science & STILL no evidence for a god
01:10 AM on 03/16/2012
They better make it a mate, lest art will imitate life (think "Manny" in "Ice Age") ...
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bbriani3842
400+ yrs of science & STILL no evidence for a god
01:11 AM on 03/16/2012
errrrr, sorry ... "life imitating art" ... heh heh