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Doc
03-16-2012, 02:05 AM
Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/russian-and-korean-researchers-will-inject-mammoth-dna-elephant-eggs-resurrecting-10000-year-old-beast)


By Rebecca Boyle (http://www.popsci.com/category/popsci-authors/rebecca-boyle) Posted 03.14.2012 at 3:03 pm


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Woolly Mammoth Recreation Wikimedia Commons


First a plant from the past sprouted new life (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/russian-scientists-resurrect-pleistocene-era-plants-buried-siberian-permafrost-30000-years) — now researchers in Russia and South Korea are moving forward with a plan to resurrect the Ice Age woolly mammoth (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFKsLZoidLt58zgUpmS3M-mAsFOQ?docId=CNG.c3a9e6de1510ab5f6807fbfeea405230. 4c1). Scientists in both countries inked a deal Tuesday to share technology and research that could lead to the birth of a mammoth clone, gestated in a surrogate Indian elephant mother.

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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/russian-and-korean-researchers-will-inject-mammoth-dna-elephant-eggs-resurrecting-10000-year-old-beast

CasperParks
03-16-2012, 04:27 AM
Will be interesting to see if they pull it off, just so they don't start calling themselves "gods".