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What rights would a Neanderthal be entitled to?
February 18, 2009 - 12:09am
‘A team of researchers led by geneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany announced last week that they had completed a draft sequence of the genome of Neanderthal humans.
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Once the Neanderthal genome is complete, could it then be used to clone an actual Neanderthal? Harvard University biologist George Church thinks so. He told The New York Times that a Neanderthal could be brought to life using present technology for about $30 million. How? Church would modify a modern human genome so that its DNA matches the Neanderthal version. To avoid ethical problems, Church tells the Times, this Neanderthal genome would not be inserted into a human cell but instead into a chimpanzee cell. This chimp cell would be reprogrammed to an embryonic state, and then introduced into a chimpanzee's womb where it would develop into a Neanderthal infant.’
Read all about it: HERE.
So, what rights would a Neanderthal be entitled to?_______________________________________
Eleutherophobics of the World...Unite!!!
By the way, if it is technologically possible to produce a Neanderthal, it is only a matter of time before someone, somewhere, actually creates a Neanderthal.
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Eleutherophobics of the World...Unite!!!
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