| Tango01 | 23 Mar 2015 10:12 p.m. PST |
"Hwang Woo-Suk is the bad boy of genetics. He's most famous for falsely claiming to have cloned human stem cells. This is, you can imagine, very bad in science. Yet last week, the South Korean researcher was in Siberia, drilling cells from the bones of a 28,000 year-old frozen wooly mammoth. The bones are the only place Hwang is going to find the DNA he needs to bring a mammoth back to life. Hwang's plan is probably doomed. Not because it's impossible—plenty of the world's best biologists are convinced that cloning a mammoth is just a matter of putting the right minds to work with the right technologies. Even most critics are more concerned with "should we" than "could we" at this point. The problem with Hwang's particular approach is it requires an intact strand of mammoth DNA. And every single strand of DNA in every single frozen mammoth carcass was almost certainly wrecked thousands of years ago by waves of cosmic radiation…"
Full article here
link Interesting "what if".
A real Mammoth. What would be his fate?. Amicalement
Armand |
| jpattern2 | 24 Mar 2015 5:36 a.m. PST |
A real Mammoth. What would be his fate? Well, if The Flintstones is any indication, he'd live out the rest of his life vacuuming floors, washing cars and dishes, watering lawns, and putting out fires.
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| skipper John | 24 Mar 2015 6:23 a.m. PST |
I wonder what Mammoth tastes like? |
| jpattern2 | 24 Mar 2015 6:24 a.m. PST |
Like well aged elephant. VERY well aged elephant. |
| Wackmole9 | 24 Mar 2015 6:37 a.m. PST |
I've always want a Mammoth burger. |
| Cyrus the Great | 24 Mar 2015 7:00 a.m. PST |
What could possibly go wrong? |
 FingerandToeGlenn  | 24 Mar 2015 8:51 a.m. PST |
Wasn't there a Nat Geo documentary already on an attempt to clone a mammoth? They promised a follow-up, but never saw anything about it. For Skipper John I'm imagining the Mammoth Burger franchises, signs along the freeway, incoherent drive through speakers, condiments--and a deep pit BBQ mammoth outside of Amarillo. |
| Garand | 24 Mar 2015 10:05 a.m. PST |
Well, if The Flintstones is any indication, he'd live out the rest of his life vacuuming floors, washing cars and dishes, watering lawns, and putting out fires.
Meh, it's a living… Damon. |
| Augustus | 24 Mar 2015 10:42 a.m. PST |
Why does Betty always look like the better option than Wilma? Isn't that a more important question than whether to clone a Mammoth or not? |
| jpattern2 | 24 Mar 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
Betty was embracing the go-go '60s. Wilma was still trying to hang onto the '50s. |
| Tango01 | 24 Mar 2015 1:01 p.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 24 Mar 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Meh, it's a living… Haha, I can hear Mel Blanc doing that line even now!  |
Dave Jackson  | 25 Mar 2015 5:48 a.m. PST |
Betty was always better…..Mary Lou……Bailey Quarters…. |
| Tango01 | 25 Mar 2015 10:26 a.m. PST |
Agree about Betty! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Cyrus the Great | 27 Mar 2015 7:22 p.m. PST |
@Dave Jackson
Bailey Quarters
+1 |
