ILEA000331190: Mammoth cloning project in Russia

KENYA-NAIROBI-FIRST NATIONAL PUBLICATION-PLANT SPECIES-LAUNCH

(230925) -- NAIROBI, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Qingfeng (L), director of the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mary Gikungu (C), the director-general of the National Museums of Kenya, and Geoffrey Mwachala, the chief scientist at the National Museums of Kenya and editor-in-chief of the Flora of Kenya publication, attend a book launch of the 23rd volume "Rubiaceae" of the Flora of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 25, 2023. Scientists from China and Kenya on Monday launched a volume of the Flora of Kenya in Nairobi, marking the publication of Kenya's first national flora and filling the gap in the field of plant resources research in the country. The Flora of Kenya, which is divided into 31 volumes, will document the East African nation's nearly 7,000 plant species from 223 families. The 23rd volume, "Rubiaceae," is the first part of the project that was officially published Monday by Hubei Science and Technology Press and the East African Natural History Society. (Xinhua/Li Yahu

Vladimir Lotoreichik

The Neuron Scientific Support Foundation awarded eight scientists and divided six million crowns among them at a ceremony in the National Museum in Prague today, on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. Six laureates received the young talented scientist award and 500,000 crowns. Michal Simicek researched malignant diseases and resistance to medicines, Martin Balko used computing to solve mathematical problems in combinatorics, Ondrej Pejcha deepened humanity's understanding of black holes, biologist Petr Kohout researched the influence of mycelial networks on the quality of soil and the composition of plant communities, mathematician Vladimir Lotoreichik (photo) explored spectral theory and shape optimisation and Lucie Kalousova studied the impact of social inequality on the health of human populations. (CTK Photo/Vit Simanek)

Cloning mammoth project in Russia

YAKUTSK, Russia - Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, on Nov. 17, 2011 at the museum in Russia, obtains a sample of bone marrow from a mammoth's femur which was found in permafrost soil in Siberia. Scientists from Japan and Russia have confirmed that the finding of the well-preserved bone marrow increases the chance of cloning the extinct animal. (Kyodo)

Amazing survival power of water bears

TOKYO, Japan - Water bears, a slow-moving animal measuring less than 1 millimeter in length (photo), can survive extremely high atmospheric pressure equivalent to 75,000 atmospheres, according to experiments conducted by researchers at Okayama University. The eight-legged water bears are known to survive in extreme environmental conditions, such as minus 250 C temperatures, extreme dryness and heavy radiation. Fumihisa Ono, an Okayama University physics professor involved in the project, says researchers applied 75,000 atmospheres of pressure to 20 dried up water bears and found that they all came back to life six hours later when they were given water moisture. Five of them were still alive 12 hours later. Scientists say the cells of most animals die when exposed to more than 3,000 atmospheres. (Photo provided by Fumihisa Ono) (Kyodo)

Human genome to be fully mapped by April: int'l group

TOKYO, Japan - Francis Collins (L), a scientist at the National Institute of Health of the Untied States, and Yoshiyuki Sakaki, a project director for the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken), speak Aug. 29 at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Tokyo about the progress in international research on the sequence of the human genome.

Mammoth's skin shown in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prof. Petr Lazarev (L) of a mammoth museum in Sakha in Russia's East Siberia, shows a piece of skin from a mammoth that was found in August in iced soil in Siberia, at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 20. Lazarev has been working with Kazufumi Kobayashi (R), head of the Creation of Mammoth Association (COM) of Japan. The association is in charge of looking into the revival of mammoths by cloning or artificial insemination.