Cloning Extinct Animals 2019
An unnamed source at North East Federal University in Yakutsk Russia told the website that a joint Russian-South Korean research team are confident they will clone the Lenskaya a species of horse that went extinct in the Stone Age.
Cloning extinct animals 2019. The world we live in now is full of threatened or damaged ecosystems. One of the latest to flirt with cloning extinct animals are a team of scientists attempting to bring back the wooly mammoth which disappeared from the face of the earth about four thousand years ago. Tian estimates that the cost of cloning a single bull is at least 15000.
Endangered species at 50-days old on Jan. The utmost preferred endangered animals in the world are dugongs blue whales tigers excellent white sharks cuviors beaked whales giant pandas tigers jaguars one-horned rhinos and David deer. Fully support it.
Scientists should refrain from conducting gratuitous experiments such as cloning animals. The center according to NEFU rector Evgenia Mikhailova would include a world class paleo-genetic lab which would study extinct animals using living cells ultimately with a goal of bringing them back to life. Here there are ethical concerns about playing god the intrinsic value of the animals and the objectification and commodification of animals.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer scnt is one way of cloning an animal. Barbra Streisand is among the celebrities known to have had her dog cloned and Hwang has even donated some experimental puppies for use as Russian police dogs. The scientists have according to a write up in the The Washington Post deciphered the genetic blueprint that may offer a key to bringing it back.
Resurrecting extinct animals is both exhilarating and terrifying says Beth Shapiro an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California Santa Cruz. Many failed attempts require extensive veterinarian interventions to provide a measure of comfort to the affected animal. Breeding program ought to be regulated.
Btw scientists plan to inset woolly mammoth genes into an Asian elephant embryo in 2020 and as female elephants are usually pregnant for 22 months I guess the first cloned mammoth will be born somewhere in 2022. Bringing extinct animals back can help the environment. Scientists have cloned the first US.