What rights would a Neanderthal be entitled to?

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What rights would a Neanderthal be entitled to?

  

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‘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: [u]HERE[/u].

So, what rights would a Neanderthal be entitled to?

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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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Caissa

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