Jackson joins a group of celebrity investors who have now already contributed a total of $235 million to help Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences bring back the extinct creatures.
A farmer has been caught illegally breeding ‘massive’ mutant sheep to sell to private hunting reserves for up to R170,000, a court in Montana heard.
The scheme sounds like the perfect plot for a John Grisham novel, with cloning, trafficking, forgery, hybrid animals, and trophy hunters all part of the crazy story.
‘King of Clones’ lifts the lid on the controversial South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk who tried to clone humans.
It is such a lucrative business that some unscrupulous camel breeders have been known to inject camels with silicone and fillers, and inflating body parts using rubber bands to enhance their appearance, and make them more sexy. Kinda like the Kardashians.
Cloning your dog is one thing, but Barbra Streisand went a step further when she packed the clones in a pram and went for a walk.
Every dog has its day, until the option to clone it comes along and you fork out the cash. Relax, cat people, you only pay half price.
If you watch Hollywood movies you’ll know that attempts to bring species back from the dead usually doesn’t end well. This shows promise though.
We all know about the various number plate scamming and corruption in various departments that goes on under the radar, right? Well it may have just been blown WIDE open.
Geneticists in Australia believe they are closer to resurrecting the extinct gastric-brooding frog. This after the team had successfully revived its genome in embryo form using the dead cell samples, in what has been named the “Lazarus Project.” Yes! Science! We might be lucky enough to experience the joys of witnessing the amphibian give birth […]
Sir John Gurdon, the British scientist who won this year’s Nobel prize for medicine, says that the progression to human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. It is also Gurdon’s work involving the cloning frogs in the 1950’s and 60’s that led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996.
Mining billionaire Clive Palmer may be on his way to ignoring the single most important movie lesson ever taught – don’t clone extinct animals. Sources close to the man have allegedly claimed that he is in deep talks with the people who cloned Dolly the sheep to bring a dinosaur back into existence.
A bunch of Japanese scientists (how surprising) believe they have the technology to clone a woolly mammoth. Yes, you heard that right, they want to bring an extinct animal back to life, and are hoping to achieve this within the next six years. End of days here we come.