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Possible Resurrection of the Mammoth as early as 2018
Posted on 7/22/16 at 8:39 am
Posted on 7/22/16 at 8:39 am
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The technology now exists to genetically engineer a woolly mammoth.
Scientists recently learned how to cut and paste the genetic characteristics of 1 species into another species genome. They're going to cut and paste woolly mammoth characteristics into an Asian elephant embryo.
George Church of Harvard University plans to do this as early as 2018.
The technology now exists to genetically engineer a woolly mammoth.
Scientists recently learned how to cut and paste the genetic characteristics of 1 species into another species genome. They're going to cut and paste woolly mammoth characteristics into an Asian elephant embryo.
George Church of Harvard University plans to do this as early as 2018.
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Posted on 7/22/16 at 8:45 am to samson'sseed
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Possible Resurrection of the Mammoth as early as 2018
Is this the guy doing it?
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:02 am to samson'sseed
Credible link. Very believe. Oh wow.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:04 am to samson'sseed
What could go wrong....
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:05 am to JustGetItRight
George Church, the actual scientist, bears a close resemblance to that actor. LINK
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:07 am to Old Sarge
Life, uh,....finds a way?
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:08 am to samson'sseed
Posted on 7/22/16 at 9:57 am to samson'sseed
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technology now exists to genetically engineer a woolly mammoth.
but why
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:10 am to WG_Dawg
To mitigate global warming.
By re-establishing the mammoth steppe, more permafrost will be preserved because herding mammals compact the soil.
I'm not kidding. Check www.reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth
By re-establishing the mammoth steppe, more permafrost will be preserved because herding mammals compact the soil.
I'm not kidding. Check www.reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:12 am to samson'sseed
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I'm not kidding. Check www.reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth
no thanks
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:25 am to samson'sseed
Did not read link but I watched a special on this a few months back. A team from China was working on it. A mammoth was found in Russia that had some flesh left and they collected some DNA
The team currently uses DNA to recreate pets for people once they die.
The team currently uses DNA to recreate pets for people once they die.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:43 am to LanierSpots
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The team currently uses DNA to recreate pets for people once they die.
Not creepy at all.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:44 am to samson'sseed
They should get to work the dodo.
I want to try a piece
I want to try a piece
Posted on 7/22/16 at 10:46 am to RedPants
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Credible link. Very believe. Oh wow.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 11:49 am to samson'sseed
The DNA for preserved mammoths is in very good shape and it should be relatively easy to revive at least a version of the species. There have been several discoveries of the frozen flesh of mammoths in Siberia and Alaska.
One specimen was so well preserved that the team of paleontologists carved out, cooked and ate steaks from it. No one liked it because it tasted like rotten meat. After several thousand years of being frozen you have to wonder what they were expecting.
Another area of interest similar to mammoth resurrection is the " reverse evolution" of the chicken. I've been following this effort since I watched a TED lecture by Jack Horner. It's at the bottom of the enclosed link.
Recreating the raptor line, from which birds evolved, of dinosaurs seems to be a matter of merely turning on archaic genes and turning off modern codes. That, of course, has proven to be difficult as you'll see in Horner's very entertaining 15-minute video.
One specimen was so well preserved that the team of paleontologists carved out, cooked and ate steaks from it. No one liked it because it tasted like rotten meat. After several thousand years of being frozen you have to wonder what they were expecting.
Another area of interest similar to mammoth resurrection is the " reverse evolution" of the chicken. I've been following this effort since I watched a TED lecture by Jack Horner. It's at the bottom of the enclosed link.
Recreating the raptor line, from which birds evolved, of dinosaurs seems to be a matter of merely turning on archaic genes and turning off modern codes. That, of course, has proven to be difficult as you'll see in Horner's very entertaining 15-minute video.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 1:28 pm to RedPants
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Not creepy at all.
Agree. It did creep me out. People take their dead pets to them and they recreate them. By using the DNA of the original pet, they say the new born pet will be very much like the original.
Very creepy and dangerous in our hands
Posted on 7/22/16 at 2:54 pm to LewDawg
Nature will find a way.....
Posted on 7/22/16 at 3:14 pm to LanierSpots
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. By using the DNA of the original pet, they say the new born pet will be very much like the original.
At first, that's true. However, a myriad of problems often pop up, such as organs growing at different rates and, most importantly, an inability to estimate how long a cloned animal will live.
The chromosomes' telomeres in a cloned animal may be duplicates of the donar pet. This means that the baby cloned animal is the same age as the animal that died. It could have a very short life span.
The main problem with cloning, at this time at least, is the sheer number of attempts that have to be made before a "successful" offspring survives. I suppose that's why it's so very expensive to have a pet cloned.
Posted on 7/22/16 at 5:43 pm to JustGetItRight
So when they resurrect Velociraptors, what the hell happens to us?
Posted on 7/22/16 at 6:44 pm to boXerrumble
Velociraptors, while very intelligent, were not the monsters we saw in Jurassic Park. The filmmakers took a lot of license with that species. They were actually much smaller than people.
It's deinonychus, "terrible claw," that we'd have to worry about. We would no doubt be high on their menu. Well, the unarmed folks would be, I suppose.
It's deinonychus, "terrible claw," that we'd have to worry about. We would no doubt be high on their menu. Well, the unarmed folks would be, I suppose.
This post was edited on 7/22/16 at 6:46 pm
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