Scientists trying to clone, resurrect extinct mammoth

Summary: A group of scientist try to basically revive one of the great animals of the ice age that had surceased for over 12000yrs they want to use this for a symbol of the ice age the process is to extract dead mammoth DNA from the corpse and then put it in an egg of an African elephant which may produce an embryo they say this process will like up to 6yrs the team of scientist is lead by a scientist that actually cloned something his name is Akira Iritani he was chosen to lead this process because cloned a mouse from cells that had been frozen for 16 years, to devise a technique to extract egg nuclei without hurting them a form embryo can be form by transferring into the womb which is hard -___-

Reaction: this will probably change alot of thing that we know finally my science fiction dreams are reality

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/?hpt=T2