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Sadly, the newborn ibex kid died shortly after birth due to physical defects in its lungs. Other cloned animals, including sheep, have been born with similar lung defects. ... An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4409958/Extinc...
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4409958/Extinct-ibex-is-resurrected-by-cloning.html
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It's a limited success: the cloned ibex hybrid only survived a few minutes. Its lungs were malformed, a common problem in cloned animals, says Folch. But it's a success nonetheless. Folch points out that they now know Celia's cells are viable, ... We look forward to the next extinct animals to be raised from the dead.
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www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/fi...
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/first-animal-to-be-cloned-back.html
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So besides the mammoth, what other extinct beasts might we coax back to life? Well, it is only going to be possible with creatures for which we can retrieve a complete genome sequence. Without one, there is no chance.
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www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.000-ten-extinct...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.000-ten-extinct-beasts-that-could-walk-the-earth-again.html
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While the egg was accepted by Bessie the cow's immune system, the Gaur calf suffered the same fate as all of the other cloned animals, and it succumbed to illness shortly after being born. ... If the technique had been successful, it could have been used to repopulate extinct species, or strengthen the ranks of those on...
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www.extinctanimal.com/cloning.htm
www.extinctanimal.com/cloning.htm
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Why haven't we cloned extinct animals? June 1, 2006 12:17 PM Subscribe ... I know we have succeeded in cloning a sheep, cat, and some other "regular" animals, but why haven't we cloned extinct animals? Recently they found soft tissue in a T-Rex skeleton and they tried to extract DNA for cloning, but it was too old.
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BOSTON –– Meet Bessie, who could soon be the first cow to give birth to a cloned ox. ... If she delivers the rare Asian gaur growing inside her, she will herald a stunning new way to save endangered, or even recently extinct, animals.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001008/aponlin...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001008/aponline171938_000.htm
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Extinct animals could be cloned from DNA found in frozen tissue samples and maybe the reconstructed genomes of ancient ... Futurists have proposed that extinct animals could be resurrected some day via cloning of their DNA extracted from bone or frozen tissue. ... The scientists who cloned the ibex, for instance,
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www.livescience.com/animals/090723-clone-extinct-animal...
www.livescience.com/animals/090723-clone-extinct-animals.html
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Researchers had thought that frozen cells were unusable because ice crystals would have damaged the DNA. That belief would rule out the possibility of resurrecting extinct animals from their frozen remains. ... Dolly was cloned using cells from live animals. Now scientists believe they can resurrect extinct species.
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www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/04/japan.mouse.clone/i...
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/04/japan.mouse.clone/index.html
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Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago, ... However, despite the fact that most mammoths recovered from Siberia are seen as some of the finest museum examples in the world, poor excavation and preservation methods have ruined the chances for any reproduction of the animals by destroying tissue samples.
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www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/08/21/clone.mammoth/index.html
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