Can we clone a woolly mammoth? Should we?

[Butchcassidy]

I say do it, i can use for my ride to work. Bhai ka jalwa ki kuch aur hoga

 

[Bouncer]

Yes please. For science.

 

[jamahir]

I dont think they would survive for in long todays world.It lived 40000 years back and since then so much has changed on earth.Btw this is the mammoth we are talking about...(look like a calf)

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and dogs ( wolves ) killed it.

but i think it should be cloned... will help in creating human clones... of course, the experiment should be done with presence of scientists from west, east, south ( south america ).

 

[Levina]

and dogs ( wolves ) killed it.

but i think it should be cloned... will help in creating human clones... of course, the experiment should be done with presence of scientists from west, east, south ( south america ).

well first of all the scientists 're not sure if they would be able to recreate mamooth's DNA for cloning.
But what they could possibly do is to combine snippets of Buttercup's DNA with elephant DNA to make a mammoth-elephant hybrid that could sport the mammoth's big tusks and its woolly coat.

 

[jamahir]

well first of all the scientists 're not sure if they would be able to recreate mamooth's DNA for cloning.
But what they could possibly do is to combine snippets of Buttercup's DNA with elephant DNA to make a mammoth-elephant hybrid that could sport the mammoth's big tusks and its woolly coat.

and stood i by the dim shore, wondering if levina decided in the noon not to sail any message bottles anymore...

what you said reminds me of a book by ben bova ( science fiction writer )... i think it was one from this "asteroid wars" series... a wealthy space-faring-company founder has his mistresses implanted with his genetic material... idea is for the mistress to give natural birth to his clone... the womb as a cloning chamber... but in the story, the births have failed, one after the other.

what do you think of that?? though i don't know if dolly the sheep had the same exact brain as her original...

 

[Levina]

and stood i by the dim shore, wondering if levina decided in the noon not to sail any message bottles anymore...

???

what you said reminds me of a book by ben bova ( science fiction writer )... i think it was one from this "asteroid wars" series... a wealthy space-faring-company founder has his mistresses implanted with his genetic material... idea is for the mistress to give natural birth to his clone... the womb as a cloning chamber... but in the story, the births have failed, one after the other.

I will google about it.

what do you think of that?? though i don't know if dolly the sheep had the same exact brain as her original..

AFAIK scientists have created brain tissue from patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar depression and other mental illnesses.
But because people are more than a product of their genes, a clone would have its own personality, character, intelligence, and talents exactly as identical twins do (who are natural clones stemming from the same egg). I dont think you can clone a person's brain or mind, and chance factors, the environment, and a person's experiences contribute to individual traits.Right??

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

Why just this why not start by saving the ones that are endangered. Dodo should also be done along with others.

 

[mike2000]

plssss do it. i just want to see how one looks like.

 

[haviZsultan]

It is closer to which animal more. The African elephant or the Indian (Asian) elephant?

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

A woolly mammoth carcass recently unearthed in Siberia could be the best hope yet for scientists aiming to clone the massive, long-extinct beast.

The mammoth specimen, which was discovered in 2013 in a remote part of Siberia, oozed a deep red liquid when it was first discovered. Scientists have now analyzed the mammoth to understand how it lived and died — and whether it will yield enough undamaged DNA to make cloning the extinct creature a reality.

n May 2013, scientists from the Siberian Northeastern Federal University crossed the icy expanse of Siberia to reach Maly Lyakhovsky Island in the far north, where rumor had it a mammoth was lurking in the permafrost. At the time, two giant tusks were poking out of the ground, but when the researchers dug further, they found an almost complete mammoth, with three legs, most of the body, part of the head and the trunk still intact.

During excavations, the carcass oozed a dark red liquid that may have been fresh mammoth blood. In fact, the mammoth meat was reportedly fresh enough that one of the scientists took a bite of it.

"This is definitely one of the best samples people have ever found," Insung Hwang, a cloning scientist at the SOOAM Biotech Research Center, said in the show.

In the past, mammoths have yielded only a few dried specks of blood, and none of them left enough intact DNA for a cloning experiment.

Yakutsk in Russia, where a group of experts had just three days to thoroughly examine the specimen before it was refrozen to prevent rotting. The team used carbon dating to determine that the female mammoth, nicknamed Buttercup, lived about 40,000 years ago. Tests conducted on the mammoth's teeth revealed it was likely in its mid-50s.

Based on growth rates from the tusks, the team deduced that the mammoth had also successfully weaned eight calves and lost one baby. Feces and bacteria in the intestines revealed the ancient matriarch ate grassland plants such as buttercups and dandelions.

Tooth marks on her bones helped the scientists glean information about Buttercup's grisly end. The mammoth had become trapped in a peat bog and was eaten alive from the back by predators such as wolves.

While scientists probed the elbow of the mammoth, the large beast oozed more blood. Chemical analyses revealed that the blood cells were broken, but still contained hemoglobin, or oxygen-ferrying molecules. Unlike humans and other mammals, mammoths evolved a cold-resistant form of hemoglobin that could survive at the near-freezing temperatures present during the Ice Age.

"The fact that blood has been found is promising for us, because it just tells us how good of a condition the mammoth was kept in for 43,000 years," Hwang said.

Cloning a mammoth?
But whether or not Buttercup can be resurrected is another matter.

DNA is fragile and must be stored at low temperatures and in uniform humidity to stay intact. Past mammoth carcasses have looked exceptionally well-preserved, with some even yielding a preserved mammoth brain. Others have oozed what looked like blood, but ultimately did not have enough DNA to recreate the mammoth genome and clone it.

So far, the team hasn't found a complete copy of the mammoth's genome. But Buttercup's tissue has revealed some very long fragments that could potentially be pieced together to recreate the genome. Still, researchers are continuing to hunt for a complete copy.

Yet, even if a complete sample of undamaged DNA can't be found, there may be other ways to clone a mammoth, said Harvard University researcher George Church. He is hoping to combine DNA from Buttercup with modern-day elephants, essentially grafting the DNA for hair, tusks and other distinctive mammoth features into the genome of the animal's modern-day relatives.

Please Change the topic to " Why not Clone to save endangered and extinct animals"

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

It is closer to which animal more. The African elephant or the Indian (Asian) elephant?

Infect it is both.

 

[jamahir]

???

well, i had quoted some of your posts since afternoon, but no reply from you...

AFAIK scientists have created brain tissue from patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar depression and other mental illnesses.

sincerely, "bipolar disorder" is a fake condition created by that fakery called "psychiatrists"... if psychiatry would have been present in history... all emperors, conquerors, prophets, discoverers and inventors would have been declared "clinically insane".

but i didn't understand what you meant by "scientists creating brain tissue from patients suffering from schizophrenia".

But because people are more than a product of their genes, a clone would have its own personality, character, intelligence, and talents exactly as identical twins do (who are natural clones stemming from the same egg). I dont think you can clone a person's brain or mind, and chance factors, the environment, and a person's experiences contribute to individual traits.Right??

but your point is correct... genetic material is not the mind... the brain must be cloned by another method... more precise cat scans maybe... maybe another simpler method...

 

[Skull and Bones]

Why just this why not start by saving the ones that are endangered. Dodo should also be done along with others.

The animals that are endangered needs protection, so that they can multiply through normal reproduction system, not cloning. Another candidate of cloning should be Tasmanian tigers.

 

[jamahir]

The animals that are endangered needs protection, so that they can multiply through normal reproduction system, not cloning. Another candidate of cloning should be Tasmanian tigers.

actually all cats, excepting lion, are endangered.

 

[Skull and Bones]

actually all cats, excepting lion, are endangered.

Yes, but cloning isn't necessary for them, breeding in the wild, with protection is enough.