Mongolian Scientists to Clone Woolly Mammoth in Three Years
Spicing up the tourism industry.
A Mongolian scientist in collaboration with the Mongolian Ministry of Tourism suggests that Mongolia may be able to clone a woolly mammoth using frozen mammoth cells within the next three years. Professor Enkhbat.G of UB University told the The UB Daily that he thinks there's a "reasonable chance" that a "healthy mammoth could be born in three years."
This is not the first time scientists have dreamed Jurassic Park-esque fantasies–previous attempts to clone the woolly mammoth failed in the 1990′s, mainly because soft tissue extracted from the ice had been, well, frozen for over 5,000 years (and so the DNA was damaged). Enkhbat plans to use Wakayama’s technique to first identify viable mammoth cells, and then extract the nuclei of the estimated 2 to 3 percent that will be in good condition. Iritani plans to obtain the mammoth tissue from a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory. The extracted nuclei will then be injected into the (we assume fertilized) egg cells of a female African elephant, to create an embryo with mammoth DNA. The Mongolian Ministry of Tourism is hopping to attract an additional 500,000 tourist per year to witness this unique attraction. No doubt that this will become an amazing investment for Mongolia.
Source : April Fool Mongolia
A Mongolian scientist in collaboration with the Mongolian Ministry of Tourism suggests that Mongolia may be able to clone a woolly mammoth using frozen mammoth cells within the next three years. Professor Enkhbat.G of UB University told the The UB Daily that he thinks there's a "reasonable chance" that a "healthy mammoth could be born in three years."
This is not the first time scientists have dreamed Jurassic Park-esque fantasies–previous attempts to clone the woolly mammoth failed in the 1990′s, mainly because soft tissue extracted from the ice had been, well, frozen for over 5,000 years (and so the DNA was damaged). Enkhbat plans to use Wakayama’s technique to first identify viable mammoth cells, and then extract the nuclei of the estimated 2 to 3 percent that will be in good condition. Iritani plans to obtain the mammoth tissue from a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory. The extracted nuclei will then be injected into the (we assume fertilized) egg cells of a female African elephant, to create an embryo with mammoth DNA. The Mongolian Ministry of Tourism is hopping to attract an additional 500,000 tourist per year to witness this unique attraction. No doubt that this will become an amazing investment for Mongolia.
Source : April Fool Mongolia
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