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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:25:58 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Why not have a mammoth?

The Globe and Mail
MICHAEL KESTERTON
Last updated Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011

Why not have a mammoth?

The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to 
life in as little as four years, thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology,
says The Daily Telegraph. "Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in 
cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian 
permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. 
But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama of the Riken Centre 
for Developmental Biology, was successful in cloning a mouse from the cells of 
another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years. Now that hurdle has been 
overcome, Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, is reactivating his 
campaign to resurrect the species that died out 5,000 years ago."

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