Here's something a little different for you. Moving away from gadgets and the torrents of mobilephone and tablet news, let's look at tech for a while.
What's going on in the tech world this year? Something very interesting in fact.
Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory.
“Preparations to realise this goal have been made,” Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the media.
This will be a huge breakthrough in the scientific world. The Frankenstein-esque resurrection of the dead mammoth will be able to show us what killed off the species in the first place and it may give us the chance to clone other long-gone species such as the dodo which of course means if we lose a species in the future we can technically 'bring them back.'
It's all very interesting and I would quite like to see a woolly mammoth at London zoo but it is just a bit too creepy isn't it?
Maybe they died out for a reason and we should quit playing God.
What's your moral standing on the issue?
Via:GoogleNews
One thought on “Researchers aim to resurrect the extinct mammoth”
I bet Cloning dangerous animals will be illegal in the future! Because criminals might clone dinosaurs!