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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