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Hey kids, you don't need a dog because everyone has one of those.
And cats are more clever than you and don't care if you live or die.
What you need — what the world is asking for — is a woolly mammoth.
Wouldn't that be as cool as any ice age?
For more than a decade, researchers have wondered about bringing a new woolly mammoth into the world.
This possibility gained some flesh when a 39,000-year-old female mammoth named Yuka was unveiled in Yokohama, Japan, earlier this month.
Inside the deflated but remarkably intact remains — thick fur surviving millennia in the Siberian permafrost — may be a viable blood sample. Preserved enough, researchers hope, to be cloned.
It would be an astounding feat — in this case, likely mixing it with the DNA of an elephant.
But why stop there?
Last year, the journal Nature announced scientists successfully revived a plant lost about 30,000 years ago, during a period when Earth's northern expanses were home to mammoths. The flowering plant came from seeds buried by squirrels.
And if a plant or a woolly mammoth, then why not clone a Neanderthal?
Harvard researcher George Church, dubbed the 'Picasso of DNA', has raised that in his new book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.
Neanderthals died off around 30,000 years ago.
Read more http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/25/cloning-a-mammoth-weve-never-been-closer
And cats are more clever than you and don't care if you live or die.
What you need — what the world is asking for — is a woolly mammoth.
Wouldn't that be as cool as any ice age?
For more than a decade, researchers have wondered about bringing a new woolly mammoth into the world.
This possibility gained some flesh when a 39,000-year-old female mammoth named Yuka was unveiled in Yokohama, Japan, earlier this month.
Inside the deflated but remarkably intact remains — thick fur surviving millennia in the Siberian permafrost — may be a viable blood sample. Preserved enough, researchers hope, to be cloned.
It would be an astounding feat — in this case, likely mixing it with the DNA of an elephant.
But why stop there?
Last year, the journal Nature announced scientists successfully revived a plant lost about 30,000 years ago, during a period when Earth's northern expanses were home to mammoths. The flowering plant came from seeds buried by squirrels.
And if a plant or a woolly mammoth, then why not clone a Neanderthal?
Harvard researcher George Church, dubbed the 'Picasso of DNA', has raised that in his new book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.
Neanderthals died off around 30,000 years ago.
Read more http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/25/cloning-a-mammoth-weve-never-been-closer
