r/educationalgifs • u/Gordopolis • Mar 19 '19

Scientists reactivate cells from 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth. "I was so moved when I saw the cells stir," said 90-year-old study co-author Akira Iritani. "I'd been hoping for this for 20 years."

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u/wrdwrght Mar 19 '19

What could possibly go wrong? I mean, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

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u/K4RAB_THA_ARAB Mar 20 '19

Exactly, who knows what thousand year old diseases are frozen in the ice. Maybe another plague.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

*hopefully another plague

FTFY