Scientists bring back to life mouse killed and frozen 16 years ago
The world nudged closer to an era of Frankenstein science after an animal killed and frozen 16 years ago was cloned.
Ethical watchdogs branded the experiment disturbing and warned it could lead to people being 'brought back to life' after decades or centuries in deep freeze.
In a pioneering experiment, researchers took tissue from a laboratory mouse frozen in the early 1990s and used it to create a healthy, fully formed clone. It is the first time scientists have been able to clone a frozen animal. The scientists say their work will benefit mankind - and could be used to bring back extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth or sabre tooth tiger.
