Scientists from Japan, the US, and Russia hope to make a baby mammoth within 6 years and hope to study its ecology to determine reasons why it may have gone extinct:
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The scientists say they will extract DNA from a mammoth carcass that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an African elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo.
The team is being led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan. He has built upon research from Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology, who successfully cloned a mouse from cells that had been frozen for 16 years, to devise a technique to extract egg nuclei without damaging them, according to the Yomiuri report.
The U.S. researchers are in vitro fertilization experts. They, along with Kinki University professor Minoru Miya####a, will be responsible for implanting the mammoth embryo into an African elephant, the report said.
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17...ammoth/?hpt=T2
This seems to raise a few ethical questions, doesn't it?