After four years on Earth will be a mammoth

Woolly mammoth, extinct thousands of years ago may once again begin to walk through the meadows and fields of the Earth thanks to a revolutionary breakthrough in cloning technology.

In the 90 years of the twentieth century, attempts to clone mammoths were, but were unsuccessful. Then it became clear that the nuclei of cells of skin and muscle tissue of an ancient mammal found in permafrost in Siberia, very badly damaged.

But in 2008, Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama of Japan Center of Developmental Biology, Riken was able to successfully clone a mouse from another mouse cells that had been frozen and stayed for 16 years.

Professor of Kyoto University Akira Iritani said that he and his team, drawing on the experience of Wakayama, be able to successfully clone a mammoth, the cells which were in a deep freeze for five thousand years.

“The only thing we really need - high quality samples of soft tissue of mammoths,” - he told Britain’s The Daily Telegraph.

According to the professor as a surrogate mother is fine female African elephant. “About two years will be spent on the preparation of the experiment and do not forget that the period of pregnancy in elephants is 600 days. So after four years is possible on earth will be born the first mammoth,” - says Iritani.

17 January 2011

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