Team of Japanese Scientists Bring ‘Jurassic Park’ One Big Step Closer to Reality
On the same day that Jurassic Park (1993) author, Michael Crichton died a Japanese team of scientists at RIKEN (Riken Center for Development Biology) successfully cloned a mouse from a frozen dead mouse.
Effectively, this makes it possible to revive animals, mammoths for example, that are frozen preserved in the permafrost (not related to permalinks) in Siberia.
Digression – perhaps you have heard how cold it is in Siberia. It’s true. I spent a semester teaching there one winter. Russians tell jokes in November but nobody laughs until April, when the words start to thaw out.
The Japanese research team also made a clone embryo from freeze-dried cells. Their next challenge reviving the now-extinct Japanese wolf from a stuffed specimen.
After that, lions and tigers and bears and dinosaurs.
For now, it’s just the mouse that is roaring.
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November 10, 2008
Jurassic Park was a cautionary tale about cloning gone WRONG!
Michael Crichton has died ….. thanks for the tales
But after all it is just a tennytiny mouse ….. ..
chomp chomp chomp
November 10, 2008
Be interesting to see what other animals they successfully clone.
November 10, 2008
Wow. This is really exciting to find out. It’s awesome to see fantasy transmuting into reality.
November 10, 2008
Good my dream of seeing some extinct animals may come to pass i just hope we take more precautions than the people in Jurassic park, because i don’t wanna get eatin by a T-Rex
November 10, 2008
Is it just me or is somthing a little weird with its legs?
November 10, 2008
Hilarious and hopeful.
Can’t wait to pet a velociraptor.
November 10, 2008
First!
November 10, 2008
I sincerely apologize for my last post. I had never done that before…and a sick desire overcame me. Anyway, neat post. But it’s not really *that* impressive.
November 10, 2008
Its amazing what could be done with this type of research. The earth is a fragile balance of a perfect ecosystem meant to rely on each piece of the puzzle holding up the next. We could revive some of the missing pieces and get things running smooth again.
November 10, 2008
EEEEEEEK!! I hate rats! The other day I stepped on a dead one, and am so happy that I lit it on fire! TRY TO BRING IT BACK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 11, 2008
Dude… john… you weren’t even first
November 11, 2008
Good grief, they made an evil mouse. Look at that thing – it wants your soul.
November 11, 2008
Awesome!
November 11, 2008
Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but scientists have already proven that DNA (the necessary ingredient for cloning) has a half-life much shorter than the millions of years dinosaurs have been extinct. In other words, no dinosaurs. However, any species that has become extinct has the potential to be revived if they can find a way to perfect this. Of course, that would be if they managed to figure out how to get rid of the constant degradation of the DNA with each cloning sample… Oh well… We can hope, right?
November 11, 2008
I think I’m the only one here who does not find cloning cool – rather, scary and potentially frighteningly dangerous.
November 11, 2008
’shopped.
November 11, 2008
So when are the hybrids going to start popping out.
Japanese wolf/dog or T-rex frog, or eh what about a tasmanian devil/platypus. This is awesome and an all, I just hope they don’t plan on making new species with their new found power.
November 11, 2008
i think this could be a very bright idea for the Hollywood producer to (again) produce Jurrasic park secuel, but the story is about movie in a movie, meaning that the original jurasic movies,will become just a movie in a movie about the fact that jurassic can really be true based on the jurasic movie. Get my point? if not, neither do i lol
November 11, 2008
I urge you all to prepare yourselves thoroughly. Your first priority is to read all xkcd literature on velociraptors.
November 12, 2008
How long before supermarkets are stacked with Dodos?
Dodo Omelet anyone?
November 13, 2008
I cant wait to go to JURASSIC PARK!
November 13, 2008
“Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”
November 15, 2008
I think we should all study up on this emerging threat:
http://www.velociraptors.info/
November 16, 2008
Be afraid, be very afraid. Glad I purchased my home based on how well I could escape/withstand a velociraptor attack. Always know your exits/entry points.