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Post by Oskanowski on Jan 14, 2011 12:01:58 GMT -5
www.news.com.au/breaking-news/mammoth-could-be-brought-back-to-life/story-e6frfku0-1225988004950Mammoth could be brought back to life:THE long-extinct woolly mammoth could be brought back to life within four years after a breakthrough in cloning technology by Japanese scientists.
Researchers have tried unsuccessfully in the past to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue of mammoths found frozen in permafrost, The (London) Daily Telegraph reports.
The attempts failed because the cells were too damaged by the extreme cold.
However, a technique pioneered by Dr Teruhiko Wakayama of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology has succeeded in cloning a mouse from the cells of another, which had been frozen for 16 years.
Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, said the same technique could be used to resurrect the woolly mammoth, which died out about 5000 years ago.
"Now the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth," he said.
The woolly mammoth would be conceived by inserting the nuclei into the egg cells of an African elephant, which will act as a surrogate mother.
Iritani said the first cloned woolly mammoth could be born in about four years.------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/picture-of-the-day-the-heaviest-black-hole-ever-recorded/69572/The Heaviest Black Hole Ever Recorded:At more than six trillion times the mass of the sun, nearby galaxy M87 is the most massive galaxy in the local universe. Using the Gemini North telescope, which sits on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and his team measured the speed of stars moving past the galactic center to estimate the mass of the black hole situated in the middle of M87.
"This is the biggest black hole in the nearby universe," Gebhardt said during a press conference at the University of Texas at Austin yesterday, according to Wired Science. For comparison, the black hole that sits in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy is just four million times the mass of the sun. "In terms of the largest galaxies, it really is in our backyard," Gebhardt said. "Being so close to such a massive black hole allows us a remarkable chance to study what happens around a black hole."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2011 12:57:29 GMT -5
a couple years ago they thought itd be atleast 100 yrs before that could happen,its crazy how fast science is evolving
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 13:00:10 GMT -5
I'd like to see the result and if they can do it. But I must draw the line at cloning humans.
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Post by eddie eddie on Jan 14, 2011 13:20:59 GMT -5
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Post by Revvie® on Jan 14, 2011 13:22:13 GMT -5
I'd like to see the result and if they can do it. But I must draw the line at cloning humans. Why...just wondering your thoughts? |
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 13:39:57 GMT -5
I'd like to see the result and if they can do it. But I must draw the line at cloning humans. Why...just wondering your thoughts? I don't want to see genetic engineering of humans. I don't like the idea of designer babies. What would the clone be used for? Would it be used to bring back your dead loved one? First, how creepy is that? Second, I don't think they'd even have any recollection of their family. I also don't like making animals just to kill them for food, like making them juicier or being able to put out more milk than possible or more births than possible. |
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Post by ebilbryan™ on Jan 14, 2011 13:43:38 GMT -5
 I honestly can't see anything involving cloning turning out very good.
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Post by bad guy™ on Jan 14, 2011 13:44:16 GMT -5
Why...just wondering your thoughts? I don't want to see genetic engineering of humans. I don't like the idea of designer babies. What would the clone be used for? Would it be used to bring back your dead loved one? First, how creepy is that? Second, I don't think they'd even have any recollection of their family. I also don't like making animals just to kill them for food, like making them juicier or being able to put out more milk than possible or more births than possible. But that's just it. While I don't agree with designer babies...can you imagine? Pick what genetic traits are best for the child. Maybe cancer is prevalent in the family...this wouldn't be a cure, but it could be a fix for another generation. Pick which strands that are best for the health and future for the child. I don't know. I'm not trying to start any kinds of arguements, I'm just thinking of the positive possibilites. |
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 13:50:36 GMT -5
I don't want to see genetic engineering of humans. I don't like the idea of designer babies. What would the clone be used for? Would it be used to bring back your dead loved one? First, how creepy is that? Second, I don't think they'd even have any recollection of their family. I also don't like making animals just to kill them for food, like making them juicier or being able to put out more milk than possible or more births than possible. But that's just it. While I don't agree with designer babies...can you imagine? Pick what genetic traits are best for the child. Maybe cancer is prevalent in the family...this wouldn't be a cure, but it could be a fix for another generation. Pick which strands that are best for the health and future for the child. I don't know. I'm not trying to start any kinds of arguements, I'm just thinking of the positive possibilites. Yeah but then people start making sure their children only have blond hair and blue eyes. Maybe everyone wants a girl. They change it so they only give birth to girls. I'm fairly positive that the negatives greatly outweigh the positives. |
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Post by TheNinthCloud on Jan 14, 2011 13:52:11 GMT -5
It was dead for a reason.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Jan 14, 2011 14:23:09 GMT -5
But that's just it. While I don't agree with designer babies...can you imagine? Pick what genetic traits are best for the child. Maybe cancer is prevalent in the family...this wouldn't be a cure, but it could be a fix for another generation. Pick which strands that are best for the health and future for the child. I don't know. I'm not trying to start any kinds of arguements, I'm just thinking of the positive possibilites. Yeah but then people start making sure their children only have blond hair and blue eyes. Maybe everyone wants a girl. They change it so they only give birth to girls. I'm fairly positive that the negatives greatly outweigh the positives. I'm highly allergic to a lot of things. What would be so bad about engineering a kid I had to not be allergic to everything? |
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 14:25:20 GMT -5
Yeah but then people start making sure their children only have blond hair and blue eyes. Maybe everyone wants a girl. They change it so they only give birth to girls. I'm fairly positive that the negatives greatly outweigh the positives. I'm highly allergic to a lot of things. What would be so bad about engineering a kid I had to not be allergic to everything? Just because you are allergic to things does not mean your kid will be. Why stop at allergies or diseases? |
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Post by Oskanowski on Jan 14, 2011 14:26:18 GMT -5
I want clones of myself. 
Imagine that...
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 14:27:59 GMT -5
I want clones of myself.
Imagine that... Maybe it will look like you, but it doesn't mean that they will think like you. |
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Jan 14, 2011 14:47:00 GMT -5
I'm highly allergic to a lot of things. What would be so bad about engineering a kid I had to not be allergic to everything? Just because you are allergic to things does not mean your kid will be. Why stop at allergies or diseases? We shouldn't. Like someone else mentioned, if we know that XYZ gene causes cancer, then we can get rid of that gene in our offspring. That is a cancer cure right there. Yeah, you and I will one day get cancer and die, but our kids won't. That is ground breaking. Now, that depends on us actually being able to track down that gene and developing a method of eliminating it in our kids. Still, if it can be done, it is ginormous. |
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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Jan 14, 2011 14:53:38 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a scientist to turn emus back into dinosaurs...  |
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 14:55:39 GMT -5
What if the kid is being made just so they can help a parent or sibiling, like giving an organ or blood? If they can manipulate diseased genes, wouldn't they be able to dictate what blood type the kid has?
Would we be able to go in and manipulate the brain so that the kid doesn't wind up with a drinking problem or the part that makes you want to kill?
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Post by Y3RP: LA MARAVILLA!!! on Jan 14, 2011 15:41:41 GMT -5
silly japs, those damn mammoths will destory japan.......then the jap government gotta call in godzilla!!!  |
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Jan 14, 2011 15:58:40 GMT -5
What if the kid is being made just so they can help a parent or sibiling, like giving an organ or blood? If they can manipulate diseased genes, wouldn't they be able to dictate what blood type the kid has? Would we be able to go in and manipulate the brain so that the kid doesn't wind up with a drinking problem or the part that makes you want to kill? This is already done actually. Parents have had kids in the past because they needed a blood marrow donor. That's already happened and is happening now. I would be surprised if we couldn't down the road. Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not. It's still a developing field. |
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 16:09:56 GMT -5
What if the kid is being made just so they can help a parent or sibiling, like giving an organ or blood? If they can manipulate diseased genes, wouldn't they be able to dictate what blood type the kid has? Would we be able to go in and manipulate the brain so that the kid doesn't wind up with a drinking problem or the part that makes you want to kill? This is already done actually. Parents have had kids in the past because they needed a blood marrow donor. That's already happened and is happening now. I would be surprised if we couldn't down the road. Maybe in our lifetime, maybe not. It's still a developing field. But just because those kids are born does not mean they will be a match. Why do they have to spend the money on designer kids though? They could easily just spend the money on doctors creating the organ. They use stem cells and cells from the organ and they can create the organ in a lab. I have no problem with that. |
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