View Full Version : Scientist seeks 'adventurous woman' to have Neanderthal baby
SuperiorDG
01-21-2013, 14:44
This is one crazy idea in so many ways. Are scientists going over the edge of reality?
Where’s Fred Flintstone when you need him?
A professor of genetics at Harvard’s Medical School believes he’s capable of bringing the long-extinct Neanderthal back to life -- all he’s lacking is the right mother.
"I can create a Neanderthal baby, if I can find a willing woman," George Church told German newspaper Spiegel Online (http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/genforscher-george-church-will-neandertaler-klonen-a-877554.html)http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png. The DNA of the Neanderthal, a long extinct relative of man, has been more or less rebuilt, a process called genetic sequencing.
In 2005, 454 Life Sciences began a project with the Max Planck Institute to sequence the genetic code of a 30,000 year old Neanderthal woman. Now nearly complete, the sequence will let scientists look at the genetic blueprint of humankind's nearest relative, understand its biology and maybe even create a living person.
And with that blueprint, it’s very possible to “resurrect” the Neanderthal, he argues -- something Church has been pushing for years. Church did not respond to FoxNews.com requests to confirm the Spiegel Online story, but last year, he told Bloomberg (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/neanderthal-babies-all-around-synthetic-biology-is-closer-than-you-think)http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png he was keen on the idea.
"We have lots of Neanderthal parts around the lab. We are creating Neanderthal cells. Let's say someone has a healthy, normal Neanderthal baby. Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there's one way to find out."
Last year, researchers finished sequencing the genome of another extinct human relative (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/30/genome-mysterious-extinct-human-completed-scientists-say/), the denisovan -- based solely off a piece of fingerbone and two molars.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/21/scientist-seeks-adventurous-woman-to-have-neanderthal-baby/?intcmp=features#ixzz2Ie2q0kRu
There's no morality in science for the sake of science.
SuperiorDG
01-21-2013, 15:00
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08752ll3P1qb8x3g.jpg
oh he'll find a willing mother. I bet it doesn't take him 24 hours and he'll have hundreds lined up to volunteer, if not thousands.
He should try posting on craigslist.
Uberjager
01-21-2013, 15:11
oh he'll find a willing mother. I bet it doesn't take him 24 hours and he'll have hundreds lined up to volunteer, if not thousands.
If not, the right amount of cash would bring one in.
The DNA has been "more or less rebuilt"? I'm sure he got all the details right . . .
This sounds suspiciously like an Onion article.
On an unrelated note, maybe he's just a particularly bright, but ugly man with a cunning plan to get laid... :-)
Same thing as those scientists that took Mammoth DNA from a frozen fossil and implanted it into an Elephant embryo. Don't think they could make a viable fertilized egg though, so I don't see how this guy thinks he can make viable human embryo. Unless they've advanced the science since the Mammoth deal.
Just a question... do these guys realize that perhaps there's a reason why Neanderthals don't exist anymore? Whether you believe in evolution or divinity, nature or God decided that they shouldn't exist anymore, and I'm pretty sure there was a reason for it. Maybe they were 100x more violent than we are? When you play God, bad things happen... Just look at any science-fiction/horror movie where some scientist creates something long extinct (Jurassic Park anyone?).
griebel303
01-21-2013, 16:47
Who wouldn't love having a baby with hair on its teeth? Sounds like alot of fun
Yep Ronin, this has got disaster written all over it. Not for us, but for the poor child that probably has a lesser developed brain and is going to be treated like some caged experimental animal? It shouldn't even be allowed. It would be along the lines of purposely creating a mentally handicapped child and keeping him/her locked up. Sickening.
Just a question... do these guys realize that perhaps there's a reason why Neanderthals don't exist anymore? Whether you believe in evolution or divinity, nature or God decided that they shouldn't exist anymore, and I'm pretty sure there was a reason for it. Maybe they were 100x more violent than we are? When you play God, bad things happen... Just look at any science-fiction/horror movie where some scientist creates something long extinct (Jurassic Park anyone?).
Probably being funded by the NFL.
sellersm
01-21-2013, 16:59
Don't we have them alive today? Most of them are in DC... [Coffee]
Ugly guys will say anything to get a chick in the sack.
bellavite1
01-21-2013, 17:42
http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/rhea_perlman_2011_10_13.jpg
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/images/neanderthal-chuck-norris.jpghttp://arjanshahani.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/trejo.jpghttp://i2.mail.com/694/1822694,h=425,pd=1,w=620/chelsea-clinton.jpghttp://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJWzuQj7smDij0V56bpJQsOcZrcYZFm fRKbZkKzkGrJk74OWvHzAhttp://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSqFDzx_BzGDUWYZKUMiJbbULU2NhEJr rU-gzduAJLlYAGKB8K_J9UGz_9khttp://johnsonmatel.com/2010/June/Smithsonian/Neanderthal_close.jpgSeriously, am I the only one that sees some Nehanderthal blood still around today?
And no, I am not making fun of them.
http://photos.exposay.com/Ron_Perlman/ron_perlman_0xWpV.jpg
ChunkyMonkey
01-21-2013, 17:44
^^ lol
The DNA has been "more or less rebuilt"? I'm sure he got all the details right . . .
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
[microwave]
Didn't work out so well on jurrasic park.
- sent by the free-range electronic weasel attached to my hip.
I think Werner Heisenberg might have a thing or two to say about the "more or less rebuilt" DNA.
LMAO @ Ron Perlman! He is the quintessential "Modern Neanderthal". Dude is actually very intelligent, but his skull is from a past epoch, hahaa.
Sounds like there aren't a lot of Encino Man fans on this site.
blacklabel
01-21-2013, 20:19
Seriously, am I the only one that sees some Nehanderthal blood still around today?
I went to high school with a kid that would have looked more comfortable in a deer hide than he did jeans and a t-shirt.
Troublco
01-21-2013, 21:32
As has been alluded to by several here, more of the "can we do this?" (or maybe "we can do this!") without much in the way of "Should we do this?".
Pretty sure this bozo won't have a lot of buy-in if the results are less than good.
Just a question... do these guys realize that perhaps there's a reason why Neanderthals don't exist anymore? Whether you believe in evolution or divinity, nature or God decided that they shouldn't exist anymore, and I'm pretty sure there was a reason for it. Maybe they were 100x more violent than we are? When you play God, bad things happen... Just look at any science-fiction/horror movie where some scientist creates something long extinct (Jurassic Park anyone?).
I wonder if they will say that about the 'liberal' species in several thousand years.
"here we have a fine specimen, perfectly fat and lazy still preserved in the couch holding a TV remote with an obama phone in their lap".
jhood001
01-22-2013, 02:12
I'm curious to see where this goes.
I can start calling myself a "neanderthal", skip the middle man, and get some 'adventurous women' for myself.
losttrail
01-22-2013, 07:24
"Trust me, I'm a scientist."
Nearly as terrifying as:
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
or
"I'm medically, I can help you."
Does bring some interesting ideas. If one is created, is it considered a person or an animal or ..... I don't think there is laws for this. So then what happens when they want to say dispose of it after say a year of testing and no longer need it? Or anyone invision planet of the apes almost where they are turned into livestock almost and slaves. (And then rebel oh man frown town.)
I wish they'd focus more on dinasaurs or something cool and not to close to the boundary with pseudo humans. (I know no Dino's nothing to find DNA in but I can dream.) Though a documentary Harder Faster Stronger about Roids had an interesting segment about gene modication or therapy to produce steroid like results in lab animals. I could go for a bit of that.
Well, it'd be a perfect fit for families on the paleo diet - it's not exactly like that was the diet of early homo-sapiens.
I wonder if they will say that about the 'liberal' species in several thousand years.
"here we have a fine specimen, perfectly fat and lazy still preserved in the couch holding a TV remote with an obama phone in their lap".
I can see the museum section now... they'll also show ancient currencies, like "Obama bucks" and "Food Stamps." "Okay kids, follow me, we'll show you something that looks like a credit card, but isn't issued by a bank... they called it a 'welfare EBT card.'" [facepalm]
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