Mouse Cloned From Long Frozen Cell

As a self-confessed geek I find this totally cool:
from http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/04/mouse-clone-mammoth.html

Nov. 4, 2008 -- Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.

The scientists extracted a cell nucleus from an organ of the dead mouse and planted it into an egg of another mouse which was alive, leading to the birth of the cloned mouse, the researchers said.

Basically it means that the only thing stopping them from cloning a mammoth is finding a specimen in good enough condition to extract a cell nucleus from.

It would have to be mated with an elephant, resulting in a half-mammoth hybrid, but cloning another mammoth with this result would produce a 3/4 breed, and the next generation after that would be 7/8ths mammoth.

Bring on Jurassic Park!