A woolly mammoth skeleton with 90 percent of its original bones. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Slate - Scientists in South Korea and Russia agreed Tuesday to try to clone a woolly mammoth, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The scientists intend to make a wooly mammoth embryo by replacing the
nuclei of an elephant cell with that of a woolly mammoth cell
(presumably from the remains of a mammoth uncovered in Siberia last
year). Then they would use an elephant as a surrogate, according to the Journal.
One of the leaders of the endeavor, Hwang Woo-suk, has a patchy history with cloning.
He rose to fame in 2004 and 2005 with claims that he and his team had
made a human embryonic stem cell. Their data turned out to be
false. More
