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Title: Bringing the wholly mammoth back to life Written by: duddy on Mar 24, 2015 (https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/18099_25_09_14_8_17_39.jpeg) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=18978) Before you get any ideas that we're cloning wholly mammoths back into the 21st century, it's not that. An American geneticist has extracted DNA from the frozen remains of a long-dead mammoth found on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean (shown above), created a synthetic replica of it, and implanted it into elephant cells that have been isolated in a petri dish, using a new technique of DNA splicing that allows for unprecedented accuracy. The technique used to join synthetic mammoth DNA fragments with the genetic code of an elephant is called CRISPR/Cas9, and while it’s been recently used to create transgenic organisms, this is the first time it’s been used on the DNA of an extinct organism. Way to go! Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/mammoth-dna-has-been-implanted-into-functioning-elephant-cells Comments: Just a note for those reading, the image pictured above is not the mammoth found @ Wrangel Island. That's just an artistic rendition. Written by: bio_man on Mar 25, 2015 |