The hunt to resurrect the wooly mammoth
is now in full swing and we can be sure that other laboratories are rushing to
do the same thing. It is the obvious low
hanging fruit in the species resurrection stakes and the one everyone want to
see happen. It has already been stated
that we are now less than five years away and success will bring huge resources
to bear.
I am expecting to see the
Pleistocene menagerie fully resurrected and I am also expecting a good effort
to restore the thousands of species lost in the past two centuries as humanity
and its pests soured the island refugia around the world. All those samples stuffed in museums may well
turn out to be the bridge back from species extinction. If the mitochondrion is sufficient for a resurrection
as this article seems to indicate, then even a tanned hide may do the job.
After all that, a little dinosaur
resurrection if it turns out to be possible, will be a bonus. Note that we can likely use crocodile eggs to
pull that one off.
Woolly mammoth could walk Earth again as Russians agree to ship
Siberian remains to Korean cloning scientist
Controversial scientist created world's first cloned dog
Remains found in Siberia last year to
be used
Research 'could begin this year'
By ROB
WAUGH
PUBLISHED: 13:03 GMT, 13 March
2012 | UPDATED: 01:15 GMT, 14 March 2012
A woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost in Siberia
could walk the Earth again after 10,000 years, after Russian academics signed a
deal with a controversial Korean scientist to clone the animal.
Hwang Woo-Suk – who created the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in
2005 – will implant the nucleus from a mammoth cell into an elephant egg to
create a mammoth embryo.
The embryo will then be implanted into an elephant’s womb. The Koreans
say research could begin this year.
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk (L) shakes hands with Vasily
Vasiliev (R), vice director of North-Eastern Federal University of Russia's
Sakha Republic, after signing an agreement on joint research to clone a mammoth
A painting by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert, (1865 - 1926) shows woolly
mammoths - the creature could walk the Earth again for the first time in 10,000
years thanks to the new research
Vasily Vasiliev, vice rector of North-Eastern Federal University of the
Sakha Republic, signed the deal with Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea's Sooam
Biotech Research Foundation this week.
The agreeement follows the discovery of mammoth bones with
well-preserved bone marrow in Siberia last
summer.
Hwang Woo-Suk is a controversial figure some of whose research into
human cloning was shown to be fake.
But since then, his institute has successfully cloned other creatures
such as cows, dogs and coyotes.
'The first and hardest mission is to restore mammoth cells,'
Sooam researcher, Hwang In-Sung, told AFP. 'This will be a really tough job,
but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning
animals.'
The Korean biotech foundation said research would begin this year, as
soon as the Russians ship remains.
The Russian academics are already in negotation with Japan 's Kinki University
Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago.
But the discovery in August in Siberia
has increased the chances of a successful cloning.
Global warming has thawed ground in eastern Russia
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114359/Woolly-mammoth-walk-Earth-Russians-ship-Siberian-remains-Korean-cloning-scientist.html#ixzz1p4QRen4V
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