Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Mammoth clone attempt failed

Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean scientist disgraced for faking his results concerning human stem cells, says he tried to clone a mammoth. While his project did clone endangered tigers, he says, "We secured mammoth tissues from glaciers and tried cloning three times, but failed."

COMMENT: For an entertaining science fiction treatment of this theme, read Mammoth by John Varney.

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