Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

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Mammoths

It Lives!

Jennifer Viegas in Discovery News predicts that within five years woolly mammoths may roam the Earth once again based on the work of researchers in Russia and Japan to try to clone the extinct species from a recently found mammoth thigh bone with well-preserved bone marrow. S. Pelech comments that this may not only be too technological challenging and too expensive to be economically justifiable in the face of the pending extinction of current endangered species, but with the global warming resulting in the rapid melting of glaciers and the thawing of frozen mammoths, time may be running out to retrieve high quality specimens from enough diverse mammoths to enable their successful cloning. Read More...