Nov 4th, 2008 | Science survey

Should Scientists use New Cloning Techniques to bring back the Wooly Mammoth?


Extinct animals frozen in death such as the woolly mammoth could be "resurrected" after scientists made a breakthrough in cloning.

Until now cloning has only been achieved using live donor cells, but now researchers from Japan have created new healthy mice using cells from dead bodies kept frozen for 16 years.

Cloning from thawed frozen cells was previously thought to be impossible.

This is from an article at Telegraph.co.uk entitled, Wooly Mammoths could be resurrected after cloning breakthrough.


Should Scientists use New Cloning Techniques to bring back the Wooly Mammoth?


52 votes, 146 views , 2 comments
 
 
Poll tags:Science, Cloning, Mammoth, Animals, Cells, Dna

 
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Cassidy
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California, United States

posted Dec 7th, 2008 at 07:04 CST

I am not sure. The Whooley Mammoth is pretty beautiful. It is a very hip animal, but perhaps it should remain extinct. I think that I agree with what DJKINDAGARDIN wrote.

Djkindagardin
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Rhode Island, United States

posted Nov 5th, 2008 at 06:47 CST

wow! Heavy. Interesting proposal. I think that it is better if they just leave it extinct. That would be a little scary. We can look at the lesson taught in Frankenstein as an educational precedent. Also, and I believe it was Ray Bradbury who showd us, that something like this could really mess up the natural order, in this case the evolution of beasts.

 
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