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The first in the country opened in the Russian city of Yakutsk laboratory where they will study the DNA of various extinct animals. About Semen Grigoryev, director of the local Museum of Mammoths.
According to the specialist, the main task of the laboratory staff there will be a search for living cells of lost species with their further by cloning. First of all, scientists intend to revive the mammoths. For many of us, such a task may seem impossible and entirely fantastic, but in fact it’s not – Yakut researchers will soon be able to get hold of a whole mammoth deoxyribonucleic acid chain suitable for cloning an ancient animal.
Research will be sponsored by the Northeast Federal by university. In addition, the desire to help the Russians expressed the Beijing Institute of Genomics and the Biotechnological Foundation South Korean Studies.
To get mammoth DNA, scientists need to find the remains animal, well preserved to this day in eternal conditions permafrost. In addition, Russian researchers should develop innovative technique that allows without the slightest loss defrost icy mammoths. As noted by Alexei Tikhonov – employee of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, – sometimes mammoth tissue samples contain single whole cells, however, when they thaw, valuable material is traceless disappears.
Scientists have decided that mammoth DNA is best taken from wool fossil animal. This, however, may also not be the easiest task, because after thawing the hair immediately start attack modern microorganisms, rapidly destroying his.
Despite this, Yakut scientists are sure that they have everything will work out. It remains only to wish our compatriots good luck. And I would like, of course, to see a living mammoth …
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