Sentence examples for mammoth cell from inspiring English sources

I see it in people's eyes when I explain that Church's CRISPRs method isn't cloning exactly, more just making a genetically engineered elephant that can handle the cold – this just isn't as emotionally satisfying as the Sooam approach: taking an actual mammoth cell nucleus, DNA intact, and popping that into an elephant egg.

If researchers do find well-preserved sperm or other cells containing viable DNA, they may undertake experiments to resurrect the species by either injecting the sperm in the egg of a close relative--the Asian elephant--to try to create a hybrid, or perhaps even attempt to clone a pure mammoth by fusing the nucleus of a mammoth cell with an elephant egg cell stripped of its DNA.

Finding a living mammoth cell is very unlikely.

If a living mammoth cell were found, it could be grown in a lab and coaxed to form an embryo.

An alternative ambition would be to try to use mammoth cells to produce stem cells.

They would provide extraordinary opportunities to compare mammoth cells with those of elephants.

The most immediate problem is that mammoth cells must survive with their DNA intact.

All in all, research to produce mammoth stem cells would be the appropriate choice, and extraordinarily scientifically rewarding, should it be possible to find viable mammoth cells.

The technique requires scores of healthy mammoth cells and hundreds or thousands of eggs from a closely related species, such as the Asian elephant.

In some individuals the mammoth cells would contribute to sperm or eggs, and these cells be used to create a genuine mammoth through IVF.

Although they were created in a bacterium, he says, the hemoglobin proteins are identical to what mammoth cells would have produced.