Japanese Scientist to resurrect Wooly Mammoth

A Japanese scientist plans to bring woolly mammoth back to life using new cloning technique.

Woolly mammoths died out 12-thousand years ago, and scientist Akira Iritani, from Kyoto University in Japan, wanted to reactivate his campaign to resurrect the ice age creature through new cloning technique developed by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama in 2008.

This is a breakthrough in cloning technology, as the scientist promised that in the next four years. It will be possible for the reborn of the woolly mammoth.

In the past, scientist already tried to clone up the woolly mammoth. Due to the severe damage by the cold to the muscle tissues found in the skin of woolymammoth have been discovered in Siberian permafrost. The attempts made in the 90s failed, which led to the abandonment of the project.

According to news, a team of scientist from Russia, in the US and Japan will attempt to bring the extinct species back to life, using an advanced cloning technologies. They already established a technique that will extract DNA fromfrozen cells.

The same cloning technique was used by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, from Japan, to successfully clone a mouse from 16-year-old DNA frozen cells.

Iritani told the Daily Telegraph, that now that the technical problems have been overcome, they only need is a god sample of soft tissue from a frozenmammoth to continue the project. Together with some of his colleagues from Russia, US and Japan, he intends to use the technique previously used by Dr. Wakayama to identify the nuclei of potential mammoth cells before he successfully extracting the healthy ones to be inserted into the egg cell of anAfrican elephant.

(source:seedol.com)

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