De-extinction is big right now and some of the extinct target creatures are big too like the woolly mammoth. “Let’s bring back these extinct creatures”, say proponents. Wouldn’t it be cool? I have to admit seeing a woolly mammoth, mastodon, or saber tooth tiger would be cool, but such efforts would not be without consequences and most of them would be profoundly negative. Cloning mammoths, for example, would be a selfish act of hubris by humans. Still a team has been working to make …Read More
woolly mammoth stem cells
It’s Friday. TGIF….although of course the stem cells will be growing, experiments going, the grants and papers continue being written, and data still analyzed on Saturdays and Sundays too in the stem cell field. Stem cells are not a Mon-Fri, 9-5 kind of universe, but most of you reading this blog know that. It seems like the last few weeks have brought an unusually high level of mainstream media coverage of the stem cell field with big headlines and big stories. What to make …Read More