Scientist seeks 'adventurous woman' to have Neanderthal baby

[SuperiorDG]

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. 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 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, the denisovan -- based solely off a piece of fingerbone and two molars.

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[Gman]

There's no morality in science for the sake of science.

[sniper7]

tag for possible pics!

[SuperiorDG]

[Sawin]

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.

[Clint45]

He should try posting on craigslist.

[Uberjager]

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.

[vim]

The DNA has been "more or less rebuilt"? I'm sure he got all the details right . . .

[Dingo]

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... :-)

[Ghosty]

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.