In what may be the best worst idea of our generation, a Harvard University research team has successfully spliced woolly mammoth DNA into living cells collected from an Asian elephant . A logical person might wonder why on earth this would be a thing, and the answer is pretty plain: because researchers want to, eventually, see if they can produce a wooly mammoth clone. The woolly mammoth became extinct 4,000 years ago, and the Asian elephant is its closest living relative, hence the choice. Read the rest of Researchers successfully splice woolly mammoth DNA into elephant cells Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: asian elephant , asian elephant genome , cloning , cloning animals , genetic clones , harvard university research , woolly mammoth clone , woolly mammoth DNA
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Researchers successfully splice woolly mammoth DNA into elephant cells