Topic ID #6952 - posted 2/10/2010 11:19 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Should We Clone Neanderthals?
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Should We Clone Neanderthals?
Volume 63 Number 2, March/April 2010
by Zach Zorich
The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative.
Read the rest of the article from Archaeology magazine here.
Volume 63 Number 2, March/April 2010
by Zach Zorich
The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative.
Read the rest of the article from Archaeology magazine here.
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