Prehistoric resurrection/cloning 5 years away?
Though we're talking ice-age mammals;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth
Can't wait to see how they explode when shot by a bazooka.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth
Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years
by Shingo Ito Shingo Ito – Mon Jan 17, 5:44 am ET
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.
Some mammoth remains still retain usable tissue samples, making it possible to recover cells for cloning, unlike dinosaurs, which disappeared around 65 million years ago and whose remains exist only as fossils...
Can't wait to see how they explode when shot by a bazooka.
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They'll just glue some green felt to a dromedary.
Is funny cause is same!
Seriously though, unless they can extract DNA from bones, we're not likely to see dinosaurs again except by reverse-genetic-engineering a bird.
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/dinosaur-dna/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
Ah yes, this was talked about in one of their DVDs too.
Cause I know they cloned that sheep a while back but not sure if they banned it afterwards
that sheep you are talking about was the firs animal ever cloned but it was never banned.
Well that's just plain wrong since Jack Horner and his colleagues have found protein, soft tissue, blood vessels.... Apparently not everyone do their research before they write an article.
Would be great if they found enough to reconstruct their DNA... and maybe build a park?
But would be nice if we instead could learn to kill species today. its fun and all that we might be able to revive species. but how many spiecies to we kill each day because of polution, forresting, oil spils and what not :S
Yes what were the possibilities of a 40 foot long gigantic reptilian predator escaping from its padlock and rampaging on the island?
If you listen to Ian Malcolm is was impossible for the 40 foot long gigantic reptilian predator not to escape from its padlock and rampage the island
Speaking of paddock, I never understood how all of a sudden the T-Rex paddock has a pit hole.
Check out this!
T-Rex's are actually now thought to be wimpy scavengers and not predators, so it might not be a big deal.
Human race is strange indeed.
"We were planning to conquer time's power over life, its power to extinguish and erase, it would change all our lives, as profoundly and irrevocably as the atomic bomb!"
-John Parker Hammond during the memoirs throughout Jurassic Park: Trespasser