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Scientists making attempt to Clone a Woolly Mammoth

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Bazzyrick
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom361 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 15:22:54
March 15 2012 11:36 GMT
#1
South Korean and Russian scientists have joined up to attempt cloning a Woolly Mammoth from the well preserved remains of a young Mammoth found frozen in Permafrost. Scientists have cloned ancient flowers from the preserved fruits and seeds in an ancient squirrels den that was also frozen in perma frost.

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South Korean and Russian scientists have vowed to work together in an attempt to clone a woolly mammoth from remains found in Siberia.

The giant Ice Age animal last roamed the Earth some 10,000 years ago - but experts believe it is possible to bring it back to life.
Vasily Vasiliev, from Russia's North Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic, and Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation have agreed to join forces to research the mammoth task.
The new pact comes after scientists resurrected an ancient flower from fruit and seeds hidden in an Ice Age squirrel's burrow in permafrost.

The researchers said their results proved that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms.
Experts in South Korea and Russia now plan to take DNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth uncovered by the thawing Siberian permaforst.
They plan to insert it into the egg cell of an Indian elephant to hopefully produce an embryo, which will then be placed into the womb of an elephant for gestation.

"The first and hardest mission is to restore mammoth cells," Sooam researcher Hwang In-Sung said.
"This will be a really tough job, but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals."
South Korean scientists have previously cloned animals including a cow, a cat, dogs, a pig and a wolf.

However, Sooam's leading clone researcher, Hwang Woo-Suk is controversial figure in South Korea.
In 2005 he created Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, and last October he reportedly cloned the endangered American coyote.
But his 2004 research into the creation of human stem cells from a cloned embryo was recently found to have been faked.

Courtesy of Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16188009

Despite that controversy at the end of the article over a particular scientist, cloning is possible and they have DNA from a preserved Woolly Mammoth. Anyone else think this is absolutely amazing?

Edit: Ty to the mod who edited the title. Your awsum <3


On March 15 2012 22:14 Plexa wrote:
Screw ethics, I want to see mammoths in my lifetime

^^
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Felnarion
Profile Joined December 2011
442 Posts
March 15 2012 12:55 GMT
#2
Well it wouldn't be a REAL mammoth if the mother is an Indian Elephant. But still kind of cool.

Realistically though, it will probably live a painful, short, life, riddled with diseases and defects.
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10495 Posts
March 15 2012 13:01 GMT
#3
Does this remind anyone of that very popular movie called Ice Age? I believe the main character in that movie is a wooly mammoth voiced by actor/comedian Ray Romano.
Ryuhou)aS(
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1174 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 13:02:39
March 15 2012 13:01 GMT
#4
Didn't the swedes clone a sheep like 20 years ago? How is this a New thing now?
meaning, why hasn't cloning been more common in science? Just the medical implications alone are staggering. Imagine a world where you can get an organ flash cloned and instead of waiting on a donor list for 10 years for a replacement, you can have your own cloned.
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Sablar
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Sweden880 Posts
March 15 2012 13:01 GMT
#5
Mammoth steak. Niiice.

And if they succeed (doubtful I guess) it seems as if it would be a real mammoth? It's not like they are cloning mammoth sperm and inseminating. Sounds more like a surrogate.
Kipsate
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands45349 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 13:02:08
March 15 2012 13:01 GMT
#6
On March 15 2012 20:36 Tristran wrote:
South Korean and Russian scientists have joined up to attempt cloning a Woolly Mammoth from the well preserved remains of a young Mammoth found frozen in Permafrost. Scientists have cloned ancient flowers from the preserved fruits and seeds in an ancient squirrels den that was also frozen in perma frost.

Full article in spoiler.
+ Show Spoiler +
South Korean and Russian scientists have vowed to work together in an attempt to clone a woolly mammoth from remains found in Siberia.

The giant Ice Age animal last roamed the Earth some 10,000 years ago - but experts believe it is possible to bring it back to life.
Vasily Vasiliev, from Russia's North Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic, and Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation have agreed to join forces to research the mammoth task.
The new pact comes after scientists resurrected an ancient flower from fruit and seeds hidden in an Ice Age squirrel's burrow in permafrost.

The researchers said their results proved that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms.
Experts in South Korea and Russia now plan to take DNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth uncovered by the thawing Siberian permaforst.
They plan to insert it into the egg cell of an Indian elephant to hopefully produce an embryo, which will then be placed into the womb of an elephant for gestation.

"The first and hardest mission is to restore mammoth cells," Sooam researcher Hwang In-Sung said.
"This will be a really tough job, but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals."
South Korean scientists have previously cloned animals including a cow, a cat, dogs, a pig and a wolf.

However, Sooam's leading clone researcher, Hwang Woo-Suk is controversial figure in South Korea.
In 2005 he created Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, and last October he reportedly cloned the endangered American coyote.
But his 2004 research into the creation of human stem cells from a cloned embryo was recently found to have been faked.

Courtesy of Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16188009

Despite that controversy at the end of the article over a particular scientist, cloning is possible and they have DNA from a preserved Woolly Mammoth. Anyone else think this is absolutely amazing?

Edit: Oh awesome, topic title didn't spell Mammoth correctly, maybe I went over the character limit, can a mod edit it please? <3

my imagination is now in overdrive.

also

its the squirrel from ice age obv!
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Funguuuuu
Profile Joined July 2011
United States198 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 13:03:26
March 15 2012 13:02 GMT
#7
On March 15 2012 22:01 Ryuhou)aS( wrote:
Didn't the swedes clone a sheep like 20 years ago? How is this a New thing now?

The thing is, Wooly Mammoths are extinct, while sheep are very common.
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FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 13:05:29
March 15 2012 13:03 GMT
#8
It's cool to the extent that theyre dealing with old-ass DNA from an old-ass creature. Other than that, it's totally unimpressive. We've been cloning shit since like 1980. We've also been using cloning methodologies and applying them to regenerative biology, which is far more clinically relevant. For example, making insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from islet cells is much more therapeutically valuable, and it comes from the same exact line of discoveries enabling this wooly mammoth cloning attempt.
Shock710
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia6097 Posts
March 15 2012 13:08 GMT
#9
Wow that's pretty cool, i always kinda thought about this stuff, a bit from like jurassic park. I wonder if i'll ever see one in a zoo or something
dAPhREAk gives Shock a * | [23:55] <Shock710> that was out of context -_- [16:26] <@motbob> Good question, Shock!
ftd.rain
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom539 Posts
March 15 2012 13:12 GMT
#10
On March 15 2012 22:03 FallDownMarigold wrote:
It's cool to the extent that theyre dealing with old-ass DNA from an old-ass creature. Other than that, it's totally unimpressive. We've been cloning shit since like 1980. We've also been using cloning methodologies and applying them to regenerative biology, which is far more clinically relevant. For example, making insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from islet cells is much more therapeutically valuable, and it comes from the same exact line of discoveries enabling this wooly mammoth cloning attempt.

There's no "other than that", the simple fact that it's a mammoth is fucking impressive.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
March 15 2012 13:14 GMT
#11
Screw ethics, I want to see mammoths in my lifetime
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FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
March 15 2012 13:15 GMT
#12
On March 15 2012 22:12 ftd.rain wrote:
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On March 15 2012 22:03 FallDownMarigold wrote:
It's cool to the extent that theyre dealing with old-ass DNA from an old-ass creature. Other than that, it's totally unimpressive. We've been cloning shit since like 1980. We've also been using cloning methodologies and applying them to regenerative biology, which is far more clinically relevant. For example, making insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from islet cells is much more therapeutically valuable, and it comes from the same exact line of discoveries enabling this wooly mammoth cloning attempt.

There's no "other than that", the simple fact that it's a mammoth is fucking impressive.


Yes. It's cool because it's a fucking mammoth, as stated. That's all tho, the actual biology isn't impressive, hence the "other than that" comment, lol
Nyarly
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
France1030 Posts
March 15 2012 13:16 GMT
#13
I figured they would have done that already..

What's the next step after mammoth ? Humans.
And i believe there are already labs researching for it or doing it.
inb4 savior baby.
kanada
Profile Joined May 2007
Canada255 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-15 13:18:45
March 15 2012 13:18 GMT
#14
agreed to join forces to research the mammoth task.
I see what they did there
AeroGear
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada652 Posts
March 15 2012 13:19 GMT
#15
Some of you dont realize/understand the complexity of cloning... Yes the techniques have been known/employed for a long time, but the success rate is extremely small for complex organism.
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sinii
Profile Joined August 2010
England989 Posts
March 15 2012 13:20 GMT
#16
This is amazing, i knew it was technically possible however the fact someone is actually doing it is amazing. This will be big news if they are successful.

Is there any surviving dna from dinosaurs? Is it technically possible to make one jurrasic park style? :D
Zandar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1541 Posts
March 15 2012 13:20 GMT
#17
On March 15 2012 22:14 Plexa wrote:
Screw ethics, I want to see mammoths in my lifetime


Totally agree.

Btw if it doesn't work with the mammoth corpse from permafrost I still have a mosquito in amber lying around somewhere.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Arthemesia
Profile Joined May 2011
United States292 Posts
March 15 2012 13:23 GMT
#18
I want a Jurassic Park in my lifetime. It'll be like a zoo with different sections. An ice age section, jurassic period, triassic etc. That would be so awesome.
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
March 15 2012 13:28 GMT
#19
On March 15 2012 22:15 FallDownMarigold wrote:
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On March 15 2012 22:12 ftd.rain wrote:
On March 15 2012 22:03 FallDownMarigold wrote:
It's cool to the extent that theyre dealing with old-ass DNA from an old-ass creature. Other than that, it's totally unimpressive. We've been cloning shit since like 1980. We've also been using cloning methodologies and applying them to regenerative biology, which is far more clinically relevant. For example, making insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from islet cells is much more therapeutically valuable, and it comes from the same exact line of discoveries enabling this wooly mammoth cloning attempt.

There's no "other than that", the simple fact that it's a mammoth is fucking impressive.


Yes. It's cool because it's a fucking mammoth, as stated. That's all tho, the actual biology isn't impressive, hence the "other than that" comment, lol


Not the actual technicality of it is very impressive just because the DNA they will be working with is going to be basically garbage can status damaged shreds. They have to go in there and repair that shit one ATCG at a time. If they can do a good job its basically a work of art.
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Teoman
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Norway382 Posts
March 15 2012 13:36 GMT
#20
On March 15 2012 22:16 Nyarly wrote:
I figured they would have done that already..

What's the next step after mammoth ? Humans.
And i believe there are already labs researching for it or doing it.
inb4 savior baby.


No. the next logical step is dinosaurs! John Hammonds dream must come into fulfillment!!!
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