Scientists have discovered that Blood flowed out of a long dead Mammoth, giving rise to speculation that it can be cloned and brought back to Life!
Death, as of now, is defined the cessation of Heart, Cardiac Arrest’
This leads to stoppage of Blood supply to the tissues resulting in their Death.
So one dies.
By this Logic, since the Blood is flowing in this Mammoth, after it is Dead(?), is The Mammoth really Dead?
What exactly is Death?
Story:
A paleontological expedition from the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society discovered a female mammoth in a remarkably good state of preservation in the Novosibirsk archipelago in Siberia. North-Eastern Federal University has partnered with controversial South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk (who was found to have faked data involving a procedure to clone human embryonic stem cells) for a mammoth-cloning effort.
“The fragments of muscle tissues, which we’ve found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat,” says expedition leader Semyon Grigoriev. “The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra.”..
The scientists gathered blood samples for testing, which turned out to be a fairly simple process. “The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out,” Grigoriev says…
Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57586638-1/scientists-uncover-frozen-mammoth-blood-flows-out/
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Australian scientists break new ground in embryonic cloning by bringing back a dead frog species using eggs from a distant cousin.
The Rheobatrachus silus frog has been extinct since 1983. This unusual Australian creature was known for swallowing its eggs and then releasing the young from its mouth. That’s way too awesome to just let the animal be resigned to the biological history books.
Australian researchers have spent five years conducting experiments using somatic-cell nuclear transfer, a technique for creating a cloned embryo. Appropriately enough, it’s called theLazarus Project. The scientists took donor eggs from a related frog and replaced the nuclei with dead nuclei from the extinct frog. Some of the eggs then began to grow.