Date: 20.1.2011
A team of researchers will attempt to resurrect the species using cloning technologies after obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian mammoth research laboratory. It has already established a technique to extract DNA from frozen cells.
Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cells from which the nuclei have been removed to create an embryo containing mammoth genes.
The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's womb in the hope that the animal will give birth to a baby mammoth.
The team said if everything goes as planned, a mammoth will be born in five to six years.
Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-scientists-aim-mammoth-life.html
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