Woman’s Assistance Needed For Neanderthal Baby Clone

neanderthal clone Woman’s Assistance Needed For Neanderthal Baby CloneThe things that you read in the news these days, now I know that what you are about to embark on is not exactly full of GHz and RAM figures, but at least there is some semblance of bio-technology involved. Apparently, Harvard Professor George Church is convicted that there is enough DNA available which can be extracted from fossils in order to achieve cloning, somewhat like how dinosaurs were created in Jurassic Park. Of course, the cells would first be grown in a lab, and on paper, it could then be implanted into a female for gestation. Having said that, Professor Church is looking for a woman who is willing to loan out her womb to birth to the clone, a Neanderthal in this aspect.

When approached on the situation, a lady replied, “I don’t know. I’m in support of the science if she’s willing to do it. I would not be that adventurous of a female, no.”

Just to get some background on Professor Church, he is a leading geneticist at the Harvard Medical School, and has also been credited in the assistance of initiating the Human Genome Project. Do you think this will find success?

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Max Planck Institute sequences genome of Siberian girl from 80,000 years ago, smashes DNA barriers

Max Planck Institute sequences genome of Siberian girl from 80,000 years ago, smashes DNA barriers

We’ve known little of the genetic sequences of our precursors, despite having found many examples of their remains: the requirement for two strands in traditional DNA sequencing isn’t much help when we’re usually thankful to get just one. The Max Planck Institute has devised a new, single-strand technique that may very well fill in the complete picture. Binding specific molecules to a strand, so enzymes can copy the sequence, has let researchers make at least one pass over 99.9 percent of the genome of a Siberian girl from roughly 80,000 years ago — giving science the most complete genetic picture of any human ancestor to date, all from the one bone you see above. The gene map tells us that the brown-skinned, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl was part of a splinter population known as the Denisovans that sat in between Neanderthals and ourselves, having forked the family tree hundreds of thousands of years before today. It also shows that there’s a small trace of Denisovans and their Neanderthal roots in modern East Asia, which we would never have known just by staring at fossils. Future discoveries could take years to leave an impact, but MPI may have just opened the floodgates of knowledge for our collective history.

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