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Post by Lighthouse on Sept 2, 2015 11:21:19 GMT
Russia has opened a laboratory in Siberia devoted to the study of extinct animal DNA in the hope of creating clones. The new lab in Yakutsk will "seek out live cells with a view to cloning", according to Semen Grigoryev, director of the Mammoth Museum at the city's North eastern Federal University. He says that "the priority is to look into bringing back the mammoth", adding that the Beijing Institute of Genomics and South Korea's Sooam Biotech company, which has pioneered dog cloning, will be involved in the study. Earlier this year, researchers at Harvard University announced they had copied 14 woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant. The scientists at Yakutsk's new facility hope that their own unrivalled collection of 2,000 or so remnants of prehistoric animals, ranging from primitive dogs and horses to mammoths, will help to identify quality cell tissue from which to extract useful DNA.
from Riviera Radio news.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Sept 2, 2015 12:06:52 GMT
Will we see this then DNA extracted? What happened to Dolly the Sheep? Might have ended up with mint sauce
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Post by Lighthouse on Sept 2, 2015 12:33:25 GMT
tis a mammoth task, but at least you can get 5 in a Mini.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Sept 2, 2015 14:50:05 GMT
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Post by Lighthouse on Sept 2, 2015 16:08:41 GMT
You got a good memory!
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