Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Williams.
The authors of the study made no bones about what they believe the implications of their work could be.
“It has been suggested that the ‘resurrection’ of frozen extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, is impracticable, as no live cells are available, and the genomic material that remains is inevitably degraded,” wrote the authors in the Monday edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[blockquote]The authors of the study made no bones about what they believe the implications of their work could be. [/blockquote]
Sounds like they made the whole mouse. This reminds me of the old Far Sign cartoon about the boneless chicken farm.