Scientiest May Clone Mammoth

[Timmy]

BTW, is everyone else trying as hard as I am not to be the first to mention Jurassic Park? (Doh!)

[houston]

Originally Posted by Timmy

BTW, is everyone else trying as hard as I am not to be the first to mention Jurassic Park? (Doh!)

wrong era!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by houston

wrong era!

Don't care!

[deafdriscoll]

maybe they will clone me next. The world needs more of me.

[NorCal]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Why can't they make an egg that's 100% mammoth? Would it be fatal for the surrogate mother? Maybe after a couple of generations, would a 100% mammoth be feasible?

Because they can not Make an egg. They are taking the Egg of an Elephant and combining it with the rDNA from a Mammoth. Thus you have 1/2 Elephant and 1/2 Mammoth. Then you do the same thing with the 1/2 breed, and you get a 3/4 breed. Then again and get 7/8th. Then continue the fractions until the Elephant DNA is gone and you have a 99.9% Mammoth.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Because they can not Make an egg. They are taking the Egg of an Elephant and combining it with the rDNA from a Mammoth. Thus you have 1/2 Elephant and 1/2 Mammoth. Then you do the same thing with the 1/2 breed, and you get a 3/4 breed. Then again and get 7/8th. Then continue the fractions until the Elephant DNA is gone and you have a 99.9% Mammoth.

That's not really cloning, then, as I understand it. Still, pretty cool!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

An elephant cow will give birth. The newborn will be exactly one half mammoth and one half African elephant. Subsequently the newborn will sire the new offspring which will be will 3/4 mammoth and 1/4 elephant.

Where'd you get that? The article says "They will transplant nuclei from the bone marrow cells into elephant egg cells whose nuclei were removed through a type of cloning." That's not 1/2 elephant, that's all mammoth.

[Austin]

Originally Posted by Jay

I will have to refrain from dying of laughter if it turns out that the mammoth/elephant hybrid is sterile.

I think you just had a revelation!! I too would like to see this of course out of curiosity. I was walking a creek two years ago and found a mammoth tooth.
It would of had BIG dental bills if it were around today.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Where'd you get that? The article says "They will transplant nuclei from the bone marrow cells into elephant egg cells whose nuclei were removed through a type of cloning." That's not 1/2 elephant, that's all mammoth.

I probably didn't even read it in this particular article. It has always been the plan to use the egg of a living elephant to start the process, but perhaps cloning has advanced since then.

[Austin]

Jesus is trying to clone us from the inside out. So far down through time it hasn't worked perfectly yet because everyone is dead. Maybe in the near future, I'm waiting..