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LIVING: Reviving Jurassic Park: What Animal Should Scientists Bring Back To Life?

In what could be a real-life “Jurassic Park,” researchers have recreated the hemoglobin of the wooly mammoth. Using 43,000 year-old mammoth DNA, scientists created a bacteria from which they then created wooly mammoth blood. The blood’s unique quality to adapt to extreme cold – which allowed the mammoth to survive the most brutal of winters – could be utilized in medical applications for humans. Kevin Campbell of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg states, “What I was most amazed by is they use a mechanism not used by any other animal. That, to me, is fantastic.” In addition to raising, and answering, questions about physiological evolution, Campbell’s research could be utilized to explore the medical use of this “cold-efficient hemoglobin” to treat victims of heart attacks and save lives.


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  • Cordingly 2010/05/05 16:14:32 (edited)
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    People need to stop looking at Jurassic Park, a FICTIONAL MOVIE, as their prime example against cloning. That's like saying we should stop space exploration because of Alien, or stop making computers because of Terminator, or Space Odyssey, the Matrix, and so on.
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  • flippytude 2010/05/06 13:52:13
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    Cloning is controversial. I just read a book about a cloned human. If they were to clone something anyway, clone an animal that became extinct, like the Dodo or Passenger pigeon. But these scientists seem to like playing God. clone clone animal extinct dodo passenger pigeon scientists playing god clone clone animal extinct dodo passenger pigeon scientists playing god
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  • jackolantyrn356 2010/05/06 11:26:43
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    If God has allowed man to have these abilities then He has allowed it. This doesn't mean it is good for man.
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  • bob 2010/05/06 11:15:55
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    LOL What they actually did and bringing back a live sized woolly mammoth are so far apart that comparing the two just makes you look stupid
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  • Kara 2010/05/06 10:42:30
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    Jurassic Park is not real and it was that would cool,but the fact is that people need to stop using this as their example for cloning
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  • tewaz1 2010/05/06 07:41:25
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    Awww damn, I accidentally voted for backfire. Seriously, cars backfire, novel compounds derived from the hemoglobin of an extinct animal? Not so much. The FDA'll have it in tests for as long as any of us are alive anyway, so it really doesn't affect us. As for what animal to bring back, let's bring back Lucy so we can finally stop arguing about it.
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  • Beauty Killer 2010/05/06 06:59:21
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    Bitches need to stop. theres a reason there extinct. I don't know about you, but my ass don't wanna be eatin
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  • ErinGoBragh87 2010/05/06 06:52:03
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    that would be totally awesome i mean i would actually like to see a t-rex
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  • InoYamanka 2010/05/06 04:56:30
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    I think cloning is unique field (although really doesn't help anyone), but if those dinsaur buggers eat my girlfriend I'm going 40-year old serial killer physco on their asses.
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  • wolfshadow 2010/05/06 04:33:34
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    Okkkaayyy...

    Yep. That's what we need.... A T-Rex in D.C....

    actually.... that might not be a bad thing.....

    Didn't we learn anything from the Japanese?

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  • Catnip wolfshadow 2010/05/06 05:21:00
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    I don't think T-rex could digest Nancy Pelosi! Herry Reid maybe...but not Pesoli. t-rex digest nancy pelosi herry reid pesoli t-rex digest nancy pelosi herry reid pesoli
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  • wolfshadow Catnip 2010/05/06 06:12:14
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    Probably not.... Not sure anyone could....
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  • GOODBYE... wolfshadow 2010/05/06 17:07:26
    GOODBYE SODAHEAD
    I cant stomach her and I'm not a T-Rex! stomach t-rex
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  • susanmom Catnip 2010/05/06 14:03:52
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    I agree. Pelosi is entirely toxic and impossible to metabolize.
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  • GOODBYE... Catnip 2010/05/06 17:06:43
    GOODBYE SODAHEAD
    Damn it! We were so close to thinking the same thing! *lol*
    http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
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  • Catnip GOODBYE... 2010/05/06 21:23:16
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    If only we could clone a creature that COULD digest Pelosi. I KNOW!

    THE BLOB!!!!!! clone creature digest pelosi blob clone creature digest pelosi blob clone creature digest pelosi blob
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  • GOODBYE... Catnip 2010/05/07 12:56:55
    GOODBYE SODAHEAD
    He's too busy making up his next "documentary" to start a project of that magnitude!
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  • Catnip GOODBYE... 2010/05/08 00:02:29
    Catnip
    Why bother giving his "documentaries" titles. He should just call them "This is why America sucks!" and be done with it!
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  • GOODBYE... Catnip 2010/05/08 15:09:03
    GOODBYE SODAHEAD
    Makes you wonder how often he gets laid. He's got a lot of pent up anger from something. *lol*
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  • Catnip GOODBYE... 2010/05/08 23:31:20
    Catnip
    Money. He's got lots and lots of money! Money he earned trashing this beloved land of ours. Money that he shamelessly flaunts. He may score with likes of Jeanine Garafolo. But any other American woman would be totally repulsed by the likes of him!
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  • GOODBYE... Catnip 2010/05/09 11:49:17
    GOODBYE SODAHEAD
    He should spend it on Jenny Craig and a shave!*lol*
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