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Uncategorized Tuesday, March 13th 2012 at 10:23 am

Russian and South Korean Scientists Team Up to Clone Woolly Mammoth

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Russian and South Korean scientists have agreed upon joint research and signed a deal on intended to recreated the extinct woolly mammoth via the only means (somewhat) currently available when trying to recreate a species that is no more: Cloning.

Hwang Woo-Suk, of South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, and Vasily Vasiliev, vice rector of the North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic, both signed the deal today. Back in 2005, Hwang created the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, though other cloning research of his was found to be faked, so that will probably and unfortunately be an underlying thought throughout the whole woolly mammoth cloning research and experiment.

After global warming thawed Siberia’s permafrost, remains of a woolly mammoth were uncovered, and the process began. Sooam Biotech Research Foundation said they’d begin the research this year if the woolly mammoth remains could be shipped to them in time. Sooam also said it would help out by sending some technology to the Russian University.

Sooam research Hwang In-Sung said the first and hardest step is to restore the mammoth cells, and the scientists would be looking for woolly mammoth tissue with an undamaged gene. The intent is to replace the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with mammoth cells, which could then be planted into an elephant womb.

Sooam admits the process will be tough, but the researchers feel they’ll be able to achieve the goal, as they have a history of successful clonings, which include a cat, cow, dog, pig, and wolf.

(via PhysOrg)

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  • Jackbondnj16

    Oh yeah. That global warming thing. Thanks for reminding me. Still waiting on that proof.

  • Robert Higuera

    Yeah, not like it’s a natural process of cooling and warming the earth has gone through previously…. wait!

  • Jackbondnj16

    Not sure if you’re agreeing with me or not. There is a natural heating/cooling cycle, but that’s not global warming. Global warming is what nutjob politicians were using to gather up millions of dollars from people who didn’t know better in an effort to stop some imaginary future catastrophic global hotness.

  • notfooled

     Haha! Thank you Jackbondnj16!!!!  I am so glad that at least one other person in the universe hasn’t fallen for the global warming scam. I wrote an essay proving mathematically, geographically, and logically how global warming is non-existant. I wish we could get the word out somehow that we are simply being manipulated and secretly laughed at by the politicians who do it for a few extra bucks. It’s just to keep people fearful of the future.

  • Anonymous

    Global warming is the perfect subject to mislead people one way or the other.  It’s vague, it can’t be proven (Jackbondnj16), it’s very slow, it’s complicated.  Evangelicals don’t care, because, of coarse, God won’t let it happen.  The greedy don’t care, they are selfish and well, greedy; let the oil flow!  The ignorant don’t care because the greedy spend lots of money telling them it’s not a problem so keep buying that oil.  Then there’s are all those scientist, if anyone has a motive to lie, it’s them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right, since the natural process of cooling and warming the earth has gone on previously, there can be no man made global warming that could be detrimental to man kind.  Thank you, I’m so relieved.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! you wrote an essay “proving mathematically, geographically, and logically how global warming is non-existant”  All that effort and you don ‘t bother telling us where we can read it?  Funny thing, people can say anything they want on line.

  • Saxygranny

    He’s probably related to that guy that invented a way to make cars run on water, but the automotive industry bought the patent and all the rights to it and then buried the invention.

  • HANK

    DO YOU REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY WANT TO FEED ONE OF THESE THINGS? YUCK AND YIKE! CLONE BUSH INSTEAD! LOL

  • Zoot

    What does it matter what you call it? It’s happening and the and there will be catastrophic events.

    Before I go on answer this: What “makes” the mass of trees or oil? I’m curious about how much you really know.

  • Trekallover

    go die in the heat and drought idiots troll me and i’ll global warm yo’ glutes. humans have created a lack of oxygenating algae and plankton in the oceans. take a little biology and sound smart when you talk stupid. global warming is real just go out travelling 

  • Anonymous

    Bullshit!

  • tyrazmin

    I have to poop

  • Anonymous

    Global warming is very real, if you continuously burn all the fuels that we have since the 1800s the planet will warm. Maybe you will realize it when the polar ice caps are gone. But this article is cool after 10,000 years of extinction they will soon be walking the earth,that’s so cool.

  • Emma Sighits

    WFT…………….. thats cool