In a reality like ode to Jurassic Park Japanese scientists are planning to clone a mammoth in the next five years:
The ambitious project was announced by a team led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus of Kyoto University. They will attempt to bring the extinct Ice Age creature back to life by using tissue from a carcass preserved in Russia.
This tissue will then be used to clone the ancient pachyderm and the nuclei of mammoth cells will be injected into an elephant’s egg cell, from which the nuclei have been removed.
It is hoped that this will create a mammoth embryo, which will then be inserted into the uterus of an elephant so that the embryo develops and is given birth to as normal.
