Scientists believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia. Teams from Russia's Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year aiming to recreate the giant mammal.
By replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth's marrow cells, embryos with
mammoth DNA can be produced. The scientists will then plant the embryos into elephant wombs for delivery as the two species are close relatives.
Via The Presurfer
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