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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2015, 08:31 PM Mar 2015

Wooly Mammoth Genes Inserted Into Elephant Cells

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Wooly Mammoth Genes Inserted Into Elephant Cells

The procedure is the latest step in longer-term efforts to 'de-extinct' a creature that has not roamed Earth in thousands of years.

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Wooly Mammoth Genes Inserted Into Elephant Cells (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP

All I got was the finger. Link? azmom Mar 2015 #1

link dpibel Mar 2015 #2

I know this is really cool science and all . . . enlightenment Mar 2015 #3

And as elephants are increasingly endangered. I can see the bebefit of reviving a predator, but Panich52 Mar 2015 #4

azmom

(5,208 posts)

1. All I got was the finger. Link?

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 08:52 PM

Mar 2015

dpibel

(2,854 posts)

2. link

Reply to azmom (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 09:09 PM

Mar 2015

news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-genes-inserted-into-elephant-cells-150325.htm

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

3. I know this is really cool science and all . . .

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 09:36 PM

Mar 2015

but what is the point of bringing back the wooly Mammoth? Just to say we can? Seems a bit cruel to the critter, since the world they lived in and were adapted for is long, long gone.

Panich52

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4. And as elephants are increasingly endangered. I can see the bebefit of reviving a predator, but

Reply to enlightenment (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 12:32 PM

Mar 2015

besides scientific curiosity, the only reason to revive a nammoth would be as a food source. And an impractical one at that.

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