The discovery of liquid blood in the remains of a mammoth opens the door to cloning

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of liquid blood in the body of a mammoth . Experts have expressed their excitement at the possibility that this finding will allow them to clone the prehistoric animal. The caving expedition 'Yana-2012', made ​​up of scientists from Russia, South Korea, USA, Canada, Sweden and the UK, have worked in the northeastern part of Russia, known as Yakutia, to a depth of 100 meters below ice, which had been unable to find fragments of skin, scalp and skull bones of this animal. As stated by the director of the expedition, Cum Grigoriev, the frozen remains belong to a female woolly mammoth who may have died at the age of 60 years, ie 10,000 or 15,000 years ago. "When we broke the ice under his abdomen, blood flowed, very dark. This is the most amazing I've seen in my life," he told the scientist.Grigoriev believed that blood could remain liquid over many years because they "fell into a well or in a swamp, probably up to half its height, while the rest of his body froze." But the main reason for joy for this issue is that "this discovery offers real possibilities of finding living cells and realize the project of cloning a mammoth  The University of Yakutsk (Siberia), which is also part of the investigation, last year signed an agreement with South Korea's Hwang Woo-suk, a specialist in cloning. In case they are finally living cells will be transferred to the core elephant eggs in order to produce embryos with mammoth DNA , which would then be placed in the uterus of an elephant Asia.