I, For One, Welcome Our New, Unfrozen Rodent Clone Overlords!

[Tuckerfan]

Japanese scientists clone mice using cells that had been frozen for 16 years.

Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.

Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead cell of a mouse that had been preserved at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) – a temperature similar to frozen ground.

The scientists hope that the first-of-a-kind research will pave the way to restore extinct animals such as the mammoth.

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.

[Ford Prefect] Arthur, this is big league stuff. [/FP]

One can only hope that in the near future, the hills will be alive with the sound of mammoths.

[ftg]

But did the mouse still have his “mojo”?