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from mice to mammoths - post 257
17 years ago
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Recently scientists in Japan have successfully cloned a mouse from a lab mouse carcass that was frozen in permafrost (-40 C) for 16 years. The new technique was demonstrated to show that cloning is now possible on severely damaged cells due to deep freezes from dead animal specimens. Several mice where cloned in this fashion and they even mated and had healthy babies.
So what animal is at the top of the list for scientists to clone using this new method? Yup, the great dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths have already been found in well preserved in the ice and experts believe that there are as many as 10,000 more trapped in the frozen wastes. Why, there is even plans to make a “Pleistocene Park” in northern Siberia. It would be twice the size of Japan and be the new home of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, Siberian tigers, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes, and ancestors of the Siberian horse.
Crazy eh?
So what's your take on all this? We have the opportunity to bring back long lost animals and really see and study what they where like. To be able to touch a real woolly mammoth would be awesome. But is it something we should be fooling with? Is it our place to do such a thing? I'm not sure where I stand. On one side I think it's amazing and on the other I think it's down right scary. I don't think it's right but I'd love to see a real woolly mammoth... I just don't know...
Discuss!
So what animal is at the top of the list for scientists to clone using this new method? Yup, the great dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths have already been found in well preserved in the ice and experts believe that there are as many as 10,000 more trapped in the frozen wastes. Why, there is even plans to make a “Pleistocene Park” in northern Siberia. It would be twice the size of Japan and be the new home of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, Siberian tigers, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes, and ancestors of the Siberian horse.
Crazy eh?
So what's your take on all this? We have the opportunity to bring back long lost animals and really see and study what they where like. To be able to touch a real woolly mammoth would be awesome. But is it something we should be fooling with? Is it our place to do such a thing? I'm not sure where I stand. On one side I think it's amazing and on the other I think it's down right scary. I don't think it's right but I'd love to see a real woolly mammoth... I just don't know...
Discuss!
It was only a matter of time.
But I expect some religious idiot/s to step forward and preach the evils of cloning and messing with gods work.. despite the fact that cloned oragsn could save lives, cloning meat product, as presented in a Popular Science issue 1999, could help feed more people.... but no! screw people, let them die, let them starve... its Gods will... which is a contradiction when God seems to want us to do for ourselves, to actually *Gasp* think!
Right and wrong are fallacies created by the human mind, morals are fabrications as sure as is Barney the Dinosaur. You are as free as you allow yourself to be. Nothing lasts forever, enjoy everything you can.
but that's just my opinion.
but think of it... something that hasn't lived in THOUSANDS of YEARS!!! If you can do it... DO IT!!! never before has that happened!
I do still advocate cloning to revive dead or dying animals, but it should be limited to those that went/are going extinct due to the hand of man...
Here's another point: yes, this is so Jurassic Park. Has anyone even read those books, or has everyone just seen the movie? Because the books were very different. And they brought up something very interesting, that being that DNA isn't everything. Some behaviors aren't instinctive, but are learned. Kind of like if you took a human being and cloned him, but never exposed him to human culture, or even another human being ... nothing he did would be indicative of normal human behavior. Same with any animal. Just because the wooly rhinos in “Pleistocene Park” behave a certain way, doesn't mean the original wooly rhinos did.