It has been 10,000 years since woolly mammoths last roamed the earth, but if scientists in South Korea have their way the giant creatures could come back to life. Russian academics have signed a deal with Hwang Woo-Suk from South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to attempt to clone an extinct mammoth . For the cloning, the Korean scientists will utilize bone marrow in well-preserved mammoth bones that were discovered last summer in the thawed permafrost of Siberia. Read the rest of South Korean Scientists Announce Plan To Clone a Woolly Mammoth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cloning , DNA , global warming , Hwang In-Sung , Hwang Woo-Suk , permafrost , russia , science , scientists , siberia , south korea , stem cells , Woolly Mammoth
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South Korean Scientists Announce Plan To Clone a Woolly Mammoth