Article: Reintroducing the Lost.(animal cloning)(Brief Article)

Once extinct, always extinct? Maybe not, if cellular DNA can be recovered and embryos transferred to surrogate moms. Joining in assisted resurrection with biotechnicians is uncomfortable for some restorationists.

To Clone a Mammoth

Jarkov, a wooly mammoth, roamed Siberia 23,000 years ago. He's been frozen (or alternately frozen and thawed) ever since. His body, in a cube of frozen ice, has been moved 200 miles from where he was found to an underground tunnel/laboratory. There his DNA will be extracted and placed in an Asian elephant's egg that has been stripped of its DNA. Researchers hope that the Asian elephant will give birth to a complete mammoth. ...

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