Bringing back the sabertooth tiger?
 

Just saw a documentary about this last night. Turns out it's possible to perform cross species embryo surrogation between lions and tigers. Apparently, someone found a Sabertooth Tiger cell or embryo or something, that had been preserved in ice for the last 30 thousand years. Anyways, they've actually managed to get the cells to multiply, and they reckon they'll be able to have a lion or a tiger give birth to a sabertooth tiger.

Freakin' whack.

I taped it, so i'm gonna watch it again later, and what i say will probably be more clear and make a hell of a lot more sense. lol. But yeah, very interesting!

Yeah that was a pretty cool doco but think it was an extinct Bison that they were able to revive the spore cells from.... which still leaves them a long way from being able to clone it.

Im really interested to see if they can clone the Tasmanian Tiger... theres got to be some genetically viable cells around for them

maybe they can bring back spacedog...

this is the kind of thing we talked about all the time in Genetics. glad i'll be going back to it in the next year or two...

Surely we have a use for a genetic engineer in the adult industry. You can help me on my new site.. Jennafest. 25 Jenna Jamesons in a massive lesbian orgy.

would put a new meaning to the clone tool in photoshop

i really miss that guy.... it was always interesting with him around

There is a team that is looking for a well preserved mammoth so that they can "make one". The trick is finding one with intact DNA. This would be very cool though.

HELLO!! This has been done! Remember this??? :::::

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That's wicked. I hope they succeed.

Problem with cloning is that the clones are not "perfect" copies, most die due to genetic defects and the ones that do survive have chronic problems. "Dolly" the cloned sheep has arthritis at an early age. See: http://bioinformatics.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=421

shhh do you hear that?

That's some cool shit for sure...I heard about the mammoth thing, bu they had mentioned it would be only 90% mammoth, and the rest would be watered down elepahnt. The Saber tooth tiger idea is slick as hell. Tigers are cool.

yo! hellooo! u need lots of viable dna to clone and even then it doesn't work half the time (see dolly references above)

for anything extinct.... sorry out of luck... unless science has preseved the dna INTACT somehow. ie dried up skin/pelts won't do it.

for the tasmanian wolf ref. above: as a matter of fact there are a couple of specimens preserved in alcohol that may be of use... when techniques improve.

far from out of luck. the techniques are still in their infancy. and 'science' doesn't preserve things.

Really? And where will they keep it? Those were VERY big cats. A small breeding populatin would really fuck up an ecosystem - not to mention campers/hikers/hunters. It's bad enough with mountain lions in Cal, eating pets and shit. Who needs a Saber Tooth Cat ripping thru your screen door, looking for a snack?

I doubt if they will be reintroduced into the wild.

I think we should clone about 10,000 of them, don't feed them for 2 weeks and drop them on the Afghanistan.

It would make a great reality show.

That's the thing. They <i>do</i> have viable DNA. That's what the entire documentary was about. It was very interesting.

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Nice :thumbsup