Japanese clone mouse from frozen cell, aim for mammoths
November 4, 2008
This handout picture, released by Japan natural science research center shows a cloned mouse (left) created with a new technology by using a frozen dead cell of a mouse
Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.
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Indeed. Scientists should learn to leave well enough alone.
Suppose they start tinkering around with DNA from extinct species from several hundreds or thousands of years ago, and accidentally revive some long extinct virus in the process...Viral DNA could be inside those nucleus.
All sarcasm aside, I think it would be cool to see a Melaphant.
What makes them think it has a chance of living in a world we polluted when it couldn't live in a world before?
Typically animals go extinct because the environment no longer suits them.
To bring them back only serves to drive other species extinct.
Well how many animals have gone extinct due to bear predation, or wolf predation.
What makes us different from them? Rational? So we can rationalize our will to kill and eat?
I'd say probably none. Nature usually remains in a rapid equilibrium state if there's no outside manipulation. Predator and prey populations are in a feed-back mechanism.
That can't be true, otherwise we wouldn't have a term for "invasive species".
Wolfs have driven coyotes to extinction in many places, bears have driven smaller predators into extinction. It's the way evolution works. The top predators displace or drive their competition to extinction.
Either way, my point is how could bringing back species we have hunted to extinction de-evolve us?
Bringing back species that occupied a particular niche is a bad idea because now new species occupy that niche.
If you're against humans driving animals to extinction via hunting, why would you be for humans driving animals to extinction via genetic manipulation?
For a really good fictional reference, read Jurassic Park.