AggieDave 6 #1 February 6, 2003 Yup, looks like those scientist who are hell bent to clone a Mammoth just got the break they were looking for. (personally, I think this is really damned cool). http://animal.discovery.com/news/afp/20030205/mammothclone.html QuoteCloneable Mammoth Cells Discovered in Russia AFP Feb. 5 — Russian scientists said Wednesday that they've found living cells in a frozen ice-age mammoth that could provide the DNA needed to resurrect the long-extinct tuskers. Cells obtained from the well-preserved legs of a mammoth found last summer in Russia's far-northern Yakutia region are "conditionally alive," said Vladimir Repin of the Vektor Research Center for Virusology and Biotechnology. The cells were fixed in formalin, an aqueous solution of formaldehyde, immediately after the finding, said Repin. The inner structure of the cells is undamaged, "so we suggest that the rest of the frozen tissues contain similar cell layers which could be unfrozen," Repin explained to the Informscience news agency. Repin said that the living cells could prove to be good for cloning purposes. "The cell material is unique because it contains not just intact mammoth DNA but whole cells which have been perfectly preserved for 10,000 years," the Vektor press service said. The latest finding comes as a boon to a group of Russian and Japanese scientists who are planning to revive the mammoth once they can find usable DNA material. The team, led by Japan's Kazufumi Goto, a former professor of reproductive physiology at Kagoshima University, said last August that it would be "technically possible" to produce mammoth calves using the DNA and artificially inseminating an elephant cow. The mammoth remains — still covered in reddish fur — were found frozen in the soil next to a riverbank near Yakutsk. The research team washed the remains using a water jet before placing them in a freezer and transporting them to Yakutsk's Mammoth Museum, Informscience said. Goto hopes that by using good DNA from an ice-age mammoth he will be able to produce a hybrid of a mammoth and an elephant. By impregnating each female hybrid with mammoth DNA, Goto believes he can produce a mammoth-elephant hybrid in which the original mammoth would predominate in its genetic constitution. The Japanese researcher hopes that the resurrected mammoths will live in a sanctuary in an uninhabited area north of the remote, frozen Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, where present conditions resemble their original habitat. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #2 February 6, 2003 I can only imagine the benifits! Can you imagine the size of rack of ribs one of thoes things would have! Err... I guess you were thinking of scientific implications huh? oops. Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #3 February 6, 2003 for some reason im thinking about the cartoon ice age for some reason..... if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #4 February 6, 2003 Remember, those ribs can tip a car, it was proven in the '60s! (Ok, so it was the Flinstones, but still)--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhino 0 #5 February 6, 2003 LOL Don't fuck with Mother Nature... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #6 February 6, 2003 but what would they be doing on a car... we have airplanes now!!! Im thinkin... mammoth roast. Aint been to one of them yet!Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #7 February 6, 2003 still wating on the giraffe bbq we were promised if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #8 February 6, 2003 Yeah, no shit, here we are, quite a few of us have actually met HH, he had his chance in Eloy to have the bar-b-q, but noooooo... --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #9 February 6, 2003 mmmm.... giraffe. I had bison once... tasted like, well beef. DOH. ohhh and Kangaroo... not to excited about that one... this thread has gone downhill fast... Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #10 February 6, 2003 ...Hmmm...I hope they didn't fix ALL of it in formalin..Formalin causes cross-linking..yer not going to be able to use that DNA for anything but probing, maybe. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #11 February 6, 2003 well of course not... we have to leave some for reproduction right! Whats formalin?Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #12 February 6, 2003 I think they were preserving some of the cells in that stuff just so they can exame them, as living cells, not for DNA harvesting, atleast that was what I got from the article. You're the mad scientist, I'm just a wanna-be college student. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #13 February 6, 2003 Quote I can only imagine the benifits! Can you imagine the size of rack of ribs one of thoes things would have! Err... I guess you were thinking of scientific implications huh? oops. To say nothing of the ivory!!! Bwahahaha! "The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #14 February 6, 2003 Oooooh yea... the piano keys and statues we could make slave labor carve that into! Im not really evil... it just felt good.Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TEB6363 0 #15 February 6, 2003 Jurassic Park here we come!!! Are they creating a Mamephant?? Or an Elemoth??? Once the plane takes off, you're gonna have to land - Might as well jump out!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #16 February 6, 2003 Actually, I think they're going to use Anna Nichole, so it won't be that much different then her...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jceman 1 #17 February 7, 2003 Quote Actually, I think they're going to use Anna Nichole, so it won't be that much different then her... Dave -- You owe me one 15 inch LCD monitor; they don't like cold water sprayed all over them! Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sharpfive 0 #18 February 7, 2003 McDonald's is probably already planning The Woolly Mac. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #19 February 7, 2003 rotfl......... if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #20 February 7, 2003 QuoteClonable Mammoth cell found What? Someone wants to clone my verga? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skygal3 0 #21 February 7, 2003 That is pretty cool..I remember watching something about it on the Discovery Channel a while back..but gee--here I thought moose were useless creatures. (you run into one with your car and then see how you feel!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #22 February 7, 2003 Hey, I could get into this, with a slightly altered project: Do you all think I could get funding to clone Salma Hayek? Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #23 February 7, 2003 Only if you promise to make me a clone of her too! --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #24 February 7, 2003 Quote here I thought moose were useless creatures. a moose once bit my sister...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #25 February 7, 2003 No really, moose bites can be very bad...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
