Several weeks ago , the astoundingly well - preserve and inviolate body of anancient wild horse foalwas extracted from the icy permafrost of the Batagaika crater in Yakutia , Siberia . research worker at the North - Eastern Federal University Mammoth Museum have determined that the unseasoned horse , a member of the extinct Pleistocene speciesEquus lenensis , was less than one calendar month old when it perished , some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago .
And now , grant to a report inThe Siberian Times , the Russian team has joined forces with South Korean scientistHwang Woo Sukin order to undertake clone the foal . Hwang was a extremely view leader in the field of view of stem cell research until 2005 , when under intense wax scrutiny over the integrity of his notable research , he intromit to falsifying much of his data on somatic prison cell nuclear carry-over ( SCNT ) – the technique underlying cloning as we know it – and to committing legion honorable violation in the procurance of human testis cell and embryo .
After having his academic date strip and his most authoritative document retract , Hwang largelyretreated into individual research , though he did assist the Seoul National University mathematical group in their endeavor to clone the first wiener ( they succeededin 2005 ) . finally , in 2012 , Hwang ground the Soam Biotech Research Foundation : a research company that also offers commercial pet cloning .
Regarding the frigid horse cavalry specimen , Hwang tell The Siberian Times : " If we deal to discover a prison cell , then we will do our good to clone the unique brute . ”
" If we have one live jail cell , we can multiply it and get as many embryos as we call for , ” he said , noting that finding a cell in pristine term after prolonged freezing will be unmanageable , as ice quartz cause cells to bust . However , he explained that one of his lead scientist had been able to isolate a “ live ” ( we ’re presuming he means vivify ) mobile phone from the tissue of a at peace firedog whose trunk had been placed in a freezer , and the subsequent cloning proceed smoothly . His squad bring all the materials necessary to retell the process to themuseum ’s lab in Yakutsk .
Once a cell melody from the foal has been establish , they may then start work on the SCNT cloning procedure . The inherited material - containing karyon will be transferred into denucleated egg cells taken from a related brute – in this case , an extant coinage of wild horse – and , using signaling molecules , the leave cell will be induced to bear like an embryo .
If and when this step has been accomplish , the embryo can be implanted into a foster gymnastic horse female parent .
“ There are the types of horses that are very close with the ancient one , ” Hwang added , unlike the mammoth , which is separated from its suggest foster species – elephants – by million of years of phylogeny
“ And if we get by to clone the knight – it will be the first step tocloning the mammoth . It will help us to act out the engineering science . ”
