Kinki Univ.: Recovering cell nuclei of mammoths-Observation-fossils of Siberian mammoth “Yuka”

Kinki Univ.: Recovering cell nuclei of mammoths-Observation-fossils of Siberian mammoth “Yuka”

Faculty of Physics and Engineering, Kinki University

Kinki University Advanced Technology Research Institute

Russian Federation Saha Republic Academy of Sciences

Tokyo University of Agriculture

Tokyo Institute of Technology

National Institute for Environmental Studies, Joint Research Group:

Muscle tissue etc. were collected from the fossil of the mammoth “Yuka” that slept for 28,000 years in Siberian permafrost.

Furthermore, cell nuclei were extracted and recovered from muscle tissue.

As a result of transplanting a part of them into mouse ova, it was observed that “new cell nuclei were formed”.

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