Resurrected?
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- ukit
http://www.reuters.com/article/s…
Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
Mouse cloning expert Teruhiko Wakayama and colleagues at the Center for Developmental Biology, at Japan's RIKEN research institute in Yokohama, managed to clone the mice even though their cells had burst.
"There is hope in bringing Ted Williams back, after all," cloning and stem cell expert John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania said in an e-mail. The family of Williams, the Boston Red Sox hitter, had his body frozen by cryogenics firm Alcor after he died in 2002.
Gearhart was only half-joking and said the study "may now stimulate the small industry of freezing parts of us before we die to bring us back in the future."
- dog_opus0
That is so frickin' awesome.
- sublocked0
jurassic park here we come
- ********0
Why do we need more mouses???!!!!!!!!
- ukit0
An alternate title to this thread is "Mouse: Resurrection"
- kalkal0
...life finds a way
- sublocked0
raptor jesus anyone?
- metal_leg_will0
Mutants
- gramme0
Brr, that dog makes me want to read Psalm 23 whilst rocking myself to sleep in a nuclear bunker.
I think all these scientists did was visit the Restaurant at The End of The Universe, and bottled a tablespoon of the caviar.
- Llyod0
I plan on having myself cloned, rather than have the mass suicides that are sure to occur upon my passing.
- harlequino0
"whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years"
Those new mouses are gonna be so confused thinking it's the early 90's. Torn jeans and flannel and all..
- Corvo20
That would be conceivable if the environment (atmosphere, nutritional resources, etc) had rested the same - but it didn't. They would probably die again. I honestly doubt, even, a man from 1000 AD could breathe or eat today without getting seriously ill pretty quickly anywhere in the world.
- ukit0
First extinct species resurrected.
