Woolly Mammoths By 2015?
Posted by Ryan on January 16th, 2011
One man is on a mission to bring woolly mammoths back from the dead. A technique for successfully recovering frozen cells to use in creating clones was pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology. Now Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, plans to use the results in a quest to bring the woolly mammoth back to life.
“Now the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
Professor Iritani estimates about 2 years to successfully implant an embryo into an elephant, followed by a 600-day gestation period. He will be travelling to Siberia this summer in search of specimens.
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January 16th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
I want Jurassic Park NOW.
January 18th, 2011 at 3:55 am
did they not learn from jurassic park???? fail!!!
June 20th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
As long as they ain’t meat eaters, I don’t care.