Wooly Mammoth Clone is Almost Here

>>Joe: Hey guys, I’m Joe Bereta >>Elliott: And I’m Elliott Morgan >>Joe: And shout out to Audible.com for helping us bring you guys the daily happenings and the what nots. INTRO >>Joe: Going on almost a year ago, we here at SourceFed made a video about the excitement surrounding the discovery of an almost perfectly preserved female wooly mammoth. Click here to refresh your memory. >>Elliott: Discovered in the New Siberian islands in the Arctic Sea, the little wooly lady revved up science-folk because she retained a high possibility of providing excellent blood and tissue samples. Why would that excite science-folk? >>Joe: The information gathered would expand scientific knowledge resulting in a greater understanding of the mysterious Wooly Mammoth. >>Elliott: Yes. But more importantly… >>Joe: Oh, ya, cloning. >>Elliott: That’s right. And they’re extremely close to doing so… or at least to trying. The team of scientists from Russia, the UK, the United States, Denmark, South Korea and Moldova have announced that quote, “The data we are about to receive will give us a high chance to clone the mammoth.” >>Joe: And Viktoria Egorova, chief of the Research and Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of the Medical Clinic of North-Eastern Federal University said, "We have dissected the soft tissues of the mammoth - and I must say that we didn't expect such results. The carcass that is more than 43,000 years old has preserved better than a body of a human buried for six months.” >>Elliott: The samples are so good that the team expects to completely decode the DNA of the animal, so now, the group is looking for a suitable Asian Elephant to provide an egg that would be injected with the clone stuff, and then that egg would be planted in a surrogate Asian elephant. >>Joe: And now is the perfect time to point out that if successful, this clone would not be a direct copy of the animal that went the route of the dodo 43,000 years ago. This would be a hybrid due to all that Asian elephant DNA. >>Elliott: And this isn’t a done deal. The whole cloning thing will be a mighty challenge because although similar, Mammoths and elephants are not the same animal. >>Joe: Yeah, their life paths forked in the road a long time ago. And moving forward, these science guys realize they’re tinkering with a very delicate and sensitive issue. Radik Khayrullin, vice pres of the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists said, “It is one thing to clone it for scientific purpose, and another to clone for the sake of curiosity.” Welp, glad I’m not a scientist because I’m curious and I’m all for it. >>Elliott: But where do you guys stand on the issue. Do it? Don’t? Moral ramifications? Is this the start of the fall of man? Let us know down below. >>Joe: And also, after you’re done here, go to audible.com/sourcefed get yourself some audiobooks and a free 30 day trial and a free download. >>Elliott: Use the free app, which is on all sorts of devices, and jump into a world of fiction, non-fiction, best sellers, doesn’t matter, get yourself some knowledge. >>Joe: Like Cloning from the Bolinda Beginner Guides. >>Elliott: I see what you did there. >>Joe: Yeah. Let the sweet sounds of this book fill you in on the history and moral ramifications of cloning and maybe we can all have a civil conversation… for once. Guys, I’m Joe Bereta >>Elliott: I’m Elliott Morgan