This article is very interesting in the fact that the potential is now in the works to bring things back from the dead! It cites using mice that were frozen for 16 years and guess what, they are back. The baseball legend Ted Williams referenced here who was frozen, well, who knows in some point in time will he be back in a new form? Bringing back extinct animals here too leads for some interesting conversation, as we would not want some those guys around, but you need a host and a womb of course to create life, so maybe we are safe there.
Dogs have been cloned already, but this is the first to be able to take a frozen being and recreate life.
If we are considered valuable enough, maybe someday we might all be frozen instead of buried in the ground? This is the stuff we used to see in science fiction, although by today’s R and D, I guess we can now start leaving off the “fiction” part of the description. BD
Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Williams.
The term "cryonics" often summons images of baseball legend Ted Williams, who was controversially frozen at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., by his children in hopes of reviving him with future scientific advances.
Yet, much more cryonic work is done to clone prized livestock than to preserve loved ones. Cloning typically requires intact cells, so breeders turn to cryonics to preserve their prized animals.
"If you're just running around and found some frozen extinct animal, you're still going to have to have a suitable womb, and a suitable egg," White said.
For example, White said scientists do not know whether an elephant could provide a suitable replacement womb, or a suitable replacement egg for a woolly mammoth.
"I'm certainly not going to say it can't be done, but there are incredible hurdles," Prather said.
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