A 10,000 year old mammoth will soon be brought back to life.
That statement looks a bit like a really bad movie intro but it is actually planned to happen.
Russian and korean scientist have joined together in order to attempt to use genetics to have an Indian elephant give birth to a mammoth clone. Cloning has been around for a while now and always seems to highly controversial (look up Dolly the sheep), but if this is able to take place it would be truly amazing.
Mammoth remains were discovered in Siberia and scientist had been trying to extract DNA from it. They received a breakthrough when they were successfully able to reproduce mammoth blood protein. I am honestly still in a state of disbelief but I found it on an incredibly trusted source and everything that I've looked for confirmation on has been proven true.
The plan is to attempt this the same way that all the other clones have taken place. In general, this involves implanting the mammoth's DNA into the nuclei of a donor elephant egg. This will effectively create an elephant egg with mammoth DNA that can then be given to a surrogate Indian Elephant. After the 22 month gestation period we may have the first living mammoth since the last ice age. Many discoveries were made just by looking at the blood proteins, who knows what we will learn from a live mammoth.
Boyle, Rebecca. "Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast." Popular Science. N.p., 14 Mar. 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.
As I read this I was pretty skeptical about it. But, you mentioned that the cite is credible and have seen it in numeral places. What do you think about this process? I think it would be pretty difficult but interesting if it does in fact happen.
ReplyDeleteHi James! I agree with Kelsey on this one; at first, I didn't believe it. I think it's really interesting that anything can be cloned, but the fact that an extinct animal could be brought back is shocking and pretty cool!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the two above comments, but I think it would be awesome if it could happen. How long do you think it will be until it actually gets brought back to life?
ReplyDeleteI agree with the top three comments. First reading the title i was a little surprised and confused on how this was even possible, but after reading the article i am more interested on the topic. I think it is awesome that they plan to bring an instinct animal back to life because if they figure out a way to make this possible, this could be an evolving controversy.
ReplyDeleteHow would they go about bringing a extinct animal back to life. I know you give a bit of a background on the genetics of it, but how would they actually do it? Is there any genetic information they have that could let them do it?
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