MOSCOW, August 31 – RIA Novosti. In Yakutia has started the first Russian laboratory for the study of the DNA of extinct animals. In an interview with the magazine “Ogonyok” said the director of the Museum of mammoth Semyon Grigoriev.
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“A few days ago we opened a laboratory for the study of tissues of fossil animals. We will explore not only the cells of ancient animals of different preservation, but their DNA,” – said Grigoriev.
According to him, the main task of the lab will find living cells for future cloning. In the first place, said Grigoriev, the researchers plan to revive mammoths. To this end, their efforts combined North-Eastern Federal University, the South Korean Foundation for biotechnology research Sooam and the Beijing Institute of Genomics.
According to the experts, their main task now is not only to find a well-preserved animal cells, but also to unfreeze them so to maintain the structure.
According to the chief specialist of mammoth in Russia, director of the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Tikhonov, sometimes in tissue samples can not find the individual entire cell nucleus, and sometimes even the outlines of the cells themselves, but when They thawed – everything disappears.
“It is now believed that the DNA extraction of fossil animals as the starting material is best suited wool, – says Alexey Tihonov.- But again, just extracted from the permafrost. It is necessary to have time do everything, until I began to crumble cuticular layer, as here on the hair begin the invasion of modern microorganisms “.
The return of mammoths, scientists believe, will divide human history into” before “and” after. ” A state capable of a similar breakthrough, will become the leader of a new direction. In Russia for such a breakthrough has all the chances, because it has a powerful resource that in such numbers anywhere in the world, this resource – the cold, the article says.
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