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TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.
Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.
The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.
The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.
Rest of the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.
Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.
The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.
The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.
Rest of the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445
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From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
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From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
IS
THE SONNET OF THE
WRET
CHED
"YOU GET A MAMMOTH, AND YOU GET A MAMMOTH, EVERYONE GETS A MAMMOTHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
The only threat is Yao Ming.........