buybuydandavis comments on Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 August 2012 01:44:30AM *  0 points [-]

There was/is a plan to resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, by putting Mammoth dna into an elephant egg.

The Wikipedia page on Interspecific Pregnancy links to an example on a Giant Panda genome put in a rabbit egg and brought to term in a cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_pregnancy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12135908

Also, I think Ventner denucleates the cell of something to serve as the host for his synthetic dna.

Comment author: Decius 09 August 2012 02:07:12PM 0 points [-]

It looks like transfer of embryos between species has been successful, but not clones. I wouldn't call the panda/rabbit clone in a cat "brought to term", more like "had promising results".