Cells from a baby mammoth that died 28,000 years ago showed signs of life through specific technologies. This news was commented on by the futurologist Assoc. Dr. Marianna Todorova in the show "Scenario from the Future" on Radio "Focus" with host Iva Doichinova.
The experiment was done by scientists from Kindai University. in Japan with a baby woolly mammoth frozen in the permafrost of Siberia. The species became extinct 4000 years ago. "It froze so shock that even the food in its stomach was frozen. It was preserved in such good shape that scientists took samples of its hooves and skin and tried to revive the cells by implanting them into mouse ovarian cells called oocytes. Some of these cells showed signs of life, ie. they reacted to the implementation in the oocytes”, Prof. Todorova said.
The very fact that the cells show vitality means that at some point the experiment may yield results, the futurologist believes.
According to her, using the CRISPR-Cas technology, scientists will remove the genes of the mouse so that cross-breeding does not occur, and will use the cells as a carrier to try to clone the mammoth.