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Nov 25
2008
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Would You Like a Woolly Mammoth?Posted by Craig in woolly mammoth, interesting, fascinating, cloning |
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If you do, great news! Recent advances could mean that the woolly mammoth could be a common sight in a zoo in the near future.
"In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a woolly mammoth."
How long do you think Jarassic Park will take to be a reality? If science keeps going this way, I'd say it's likely in the future. I for one, would love to see it.
"A new DNA decoding machine made this exciting success possible because it can work with genetic material from hair and DNA that is broken up and can only be isolated as fragments. Decoding the entire mammoth genome is only question of money, cost estimate is about $USD 2 million."
At only a cost of money I doubt it'll take much longer, so watch out people. Here comes the woolly mammoth, back from the dead to a zoon near you.
Cloning the Wolly Mammoth [environmentalgraffiti.com]
