Scientists from Russia, Korea and the Netherlands will talk about the modern methods of fossil animals’ research at the scientific seminar organized by NEFU Institute of Applied Ecology of the North. The main topic of the seminar will be research and possible cloning of Malolyakhovsky mammoth. The scientific event will be held from 16 to 19 March at the Federal University.

Hwang Woo Suk, the Head of SOAAM Biotech Research Foundation (Republic of Korea), will talk about the preliminary results of the study of Malolyakhovsky mammoth cells. "In July 2014, partner representatives of the Korean SOAAM Foundation received about 1.5kg of samples of soft tissues and blood of Malolyakhovsky mammoth for further research and finding living cells", according to the laboratory of "NEFU Mammoth Museum" of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North.

World scientist Hwang Woo Suk is known by dog cloning project - his scientific results were very successful. "He was the first to clone a dog. Before him, the Americans and the Japanese tried to do it. These studies were rechecked and it was proved that all cloned animals are really clones", the Head of the Laboratory Semyon Grigoriev said in an interview to gazeta.ru.

In March 2014, the famous Russian and foreign scientists worked on the study of Malolyakhovsky mammoth carcass. There was a computed tomography of mammoth trunk and extremities, 3D-scanning, liquid blood of mammoth was studied, and samples for histological, microbiological, genetic, isotopic and other kinds of analysis were extracted. According to NEFU Newsroom, scientists of research institutes and universities of Yakutia and St. Petersburg will present the preliminary results of the study of mammoth carcass.