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According to the Yamal media in the near future, Russian scientists plan to clone a mammoth. To address this challenge, Siberian Federal University experts called in the aid of scientists from South Korea, with extensive experience in the study of the genomes of ancient animals.
One of the experts told media representatives that at the moment they are busy deciphering the genome mammoth, whose remains were discovered this summer in the territory of the New Siberian Islands. Fortunately scientists, all perfectly preserved mammoth fragments, because they were in permafrost conditions.
The news of the good condition of soft tissues of the detected animal confirmed as the leading specialist lab “mammoth museum” Maxim Chaprasov. He added that all the research an international team of scientists will conduct in their laboratories, and remains not leave the territory of Northeastern University.
Let us recall that a few months ago, President Vladimir Putin has supported the idea of cloning a mammoth. During his visit to the museum of the above, the President showed the remains of a female mammoth, which perfectly preserved soft tissue and even blood. The President asked the students of high school, can I clone an animal, and received an affirmative answer. The fact that the whole cells were mammoth DNA needed for the clone.
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