Monday, January 21, 2013
This should be fun.
Professor George Church is probably quite normal at faculty cocktail parties, but it appears that he is hiding a streak of "mad scientist" in him.
Professor George Church not only believes that he can clone a Neanderthal, but that a extremely adventurous female human” would be able to give birth to one.What could possibly go wrong? Probably nothing, but what real use is it other than bragging right for Prof Church.
According to The Daily Mail, Church, a geneticist and professor of synthetic biology at Harvard University, said he can use fossil samples to recreate the DNA structure of Neanderthals. He said he would then place the DNA inside stem cells, which would in turn be injected into cells from a human embryo for placement inside a human womb.
“Now I need an adventurous female human,” Church said. “It depends on a hell of a lot of things, but I think it can be done...
”“Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size,” he said. “They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it’s conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.”
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