Mouse Cloned From Carcass Frozen For 16 Years

Posted by Alex in Science & Tech on November 4, 2008 at 12:26 pm


Teruhiko Wakayama and colleagues at RIKEN, Japan, have successfully cloned a mouse from cells of a dead mouse that has been frozen for 16 years. Things brings up two questions: 1) When are we going to bring back the mammoth, and 2) WHO KEEPS A FROZEN MOUSE FOR 16 YEARS?!?!

Oh, and it reminds me to clean out my freezer. Who knows what’s in there now … Link (with video clip) – via Gizmodo


Previous post
this post? Please Email this               
Next post


FUN PRODUCTS FROM THE NEATORAMA SHOP:


COMMENT

17 comments to "Mouse Cloned From Carcass Frozen For 16 Years"

  1. Pudifoot
    November 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    If they bring back the mammoth, maybe we will find out what really drove them to extinction.... the fact that they are soooo dang yummy!!!

  2. seekshelter
    November 4th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    i have a friend that has had a lizard in her freezer for about 3 years... she cant find a good place to bury it... i can only assume that someone really loved the hell out of that rat.

  3. StuckeyJ
    November 4th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    "Who knows what’s in there now …" What ever it is, they can clone it...

  4. gtron
    November 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    "whatever it is"... the rarely found and usually found dead giant squid? blue fin tuna whose numbers are dwindling and taste so good (clone and release)? ALL rare or dying out species? animals we'll need for meat when overpopulation hits the tipping point area? my son Douglas who was killed yesterday in a car crash?

  5. Him
    November 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Guys, if you haven't noticed, its not a rat, its a gerbil.

  6. Ali S.
    November 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Well, at least with this tech we can clone animals whose populations are dwindling. As well, if possible we can use this to clone organs without having to get into the big hoopla over stem cells.

  7. Johnny Cat
    November 4th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Wow gtron. Sorry to hear that.

  8. InfoMofo
    November 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Yeah but this report fails to mention if the rat can still sing "Walking on Sunshine".

  9. Max Power
    November 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    awh. :)

  10. CheeseDuck
    November 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    When do I get to visit Jurassic Park?

  11. MarcBee
    November 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Bring back walt disney!

  12. Kitten
    November 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    I think it's a mouse, not a gerbil. But I'm not up on my small rodents.

    I want a mammoth!

  13. Jenny
    November 4th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    definitely a mouse guys
    and about cloning animals with dwindling populations, um that's not really going to work, wayy to much inbreeding,unless it's highly controlled or they get DNA from already dead specimens, but still most animals have more than one baby, which would make too much of the same genetics running around

  14. Brim
    November 5th, 2008 at 5:54 am

    It's relatively easy to forget dead animals in freezers. My dad has had a bohemian waxwing in the freezer for about 20 years now. He finds it from there in every two or three years and says "I should finally take this to the taxidermist", puts it back and forgets it again. I guess it will be there for the next 20 years as well.

  15. renderanything
    November 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    Maybe I should dig the eight year old pink grapefruit/strawberry juice I found yesterday out of the trash and see what I can make from it.

  16. Pudifoot
    November 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    renderanything: you can make a great drink.... just add plenty of vodka

    I suggest 1 part vodka to 0.00000000000000001 parts old juice.

  17. EMMACOOPS1
    December 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    ok ITS A MOUSE

    and your all a bunch of freaks


PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT

Neatorama Comment Policy
You don't have to register or login to comment, but it's easier if you do so. Comments aren't censored, but those that are abusive or off-topic may be edited or deleted.


Stay updated on the comments with Comment RSS