For the past year, a team of Russian paleontologists and a controversial South Korean biologist have been working to clone a Woolly Mammoth from preserved tissue samples and blood. In Seoul, South Korea, Motherboard met with Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk of Sooam Biotech—a notorious cloning scientist that has already cloned dogs and coyotes with cutting-edge stem cell research, and believes he can bring the Mammoth back to life, too.
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Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk, performing an embryo transfer on a dog at Sooam Biotech in Seoul. VICE Staff/VICE
Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk, performing an embryo transfer on a dog at Sooam Biotech in Seoul. VICE Staff/VICE
Motherboard's Ben Makuch, holding two puppies, that are genetically the exact same dog, cloned by Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk at Sooam Biotech's lab. VICE Staff/VICE
Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk holds two of the puppies he successfully cloned at the Sooam Biotech. VICE Staff/VICEOrphan Black returns April 18th 9e/10p on Space. Catch up now.
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