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Woolly Mamoth DNA recovered.
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Don't just laugh at the advances in genetic science. It took about four decades of research to get to Dolly. That was 28 years ago. Dolly wasn't the first mammal to be cloned. They had another sheep in 1984, 40 years ago to current year. Around 50 years ago no one would have imagined that this is possible and like you would have requested for the source.
What made Dolly so special was because she had been made from an adult cell, which no-one at the time thought was possible. Dolly was the end product of what's called somatic cell nuclear transfer.
This involves removing the genetic material from an egg and replace it with the nucleus of some other body cell. The resulting egg becomes a factory to produce an embryo that develops into an offspring. No sperm is in the picture; instead of half the genetic material coming from a sperm and half from an egg, it all comes from a single cell. It’s diploid from the start.
Genetics have come a long way since Dolly and resurrecting an extinct species is not exactly just a pipe dream.
Don't just laugh at the advances in genetic science. It took about four decades of research to get to Dolly. That was 28 years ago. Dolly wasn't the first mammal to be cloned. They had another sheep in 1984, 40 years ago to current year. Around 50 years ago no one would have imagined that this is possible and like you would have requested for the source.
What made Dolly so special was because she had been made from an adult cell, which no-one at the time thought was possible. Dolly was the end product of what's called somatic cell nuclear transfer.
This involves removing the genetic material from an egg and replace it with the nucleus of some other body cell. The resulting egg becomes a factory to produce an embryo that develops into an offspring. No sperm is in the picture; instead of half the genetic material coming from a sperm and half from an egg, it all comes from a single cell. It’s diploid from the start.
Genetics have come a long way since Dolly and resurrecting an extinct species is not exactly just a pipe dream.
Hey, I just asked where your article came from.
Cloning isn't a new thing. They've been cloning pets for years, and even horses too.
It's not just about getting the DNA. The whole "cloning a mammoth" thing has become kind of a running joke, with headlines always saying they'll be back in a few years.
In Beth Shapiro's book "How to Clone a Mammoth," she basically says right at the start that cloning a mammoth will probably never happen. She then talks about other methods being tried and dives into the ethics and reasons behind de-extinction efforts.
Here's a good read if you are interested.
Woolly Mammoth De-extinction Project & Process | Colossal
I have read Beth Shapiro too... and Colosssal Biosciences was mentioned in the final para of my post had anyone cared to find out who they are and what they do. The science has moved on from Shapiro times.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong."
Nothing is a joke. There are several instances in past history where people declared certain things are impossible, but they are a reality today.
Someone once said - "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
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