From Mice to Mammoths: The Cloning Craze Gets Prehistoric

Posted on 09 November 2008

Woolly Mammoths (from Wikimedia)Ready to see giant furry pachyderms roaming the plains?

Japanese scientist Sayaka Wakayama has successfully cloned mice from cells frozen for 16 years. That could open the doors to reviving history in a big way…

Could scientists now clone woolly mammoths, which went extinct thousands of years ago? Entire mammoth carcasses have been found frozen in Siberia. The DNA is likely highly degraded, but as we say at The Worldwide Scoop, you never know till you try…

Unfortunately, author Michael Crichton, who popularized the idea of cloning extinct species back to life in Jurassic Park, died this November 4th, just before Dr. Wakayama made his announcement. And there’s no confirmation to the rumor that Crichton’s DNA has been preserved in a ball of amber…

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