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Posted by Darrin
January, 22nd 2013

To have this man's BABY!

Yep!  I just can't make this stuff up!

A Harvard professor** who once helped map the human genome is now gaining fame in a new way. He is seeking an "adventurous woman" to give birth to the first Neanderthal baby born in thousands of years. No, it's not Jurassic Park or science that is technically possible, if not totally impractical. This could really happen at some point. Maybe.

There is just one problem. Professor George Church needs a woman who would be willing to carry and birth the product of an experiment where artificial Neanderthal DNA from bone samples would be placed into stem cells, injected into an embryo, and then implanted.

In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, professor George Church says that it's technically possible and that, while his job isn't to say whether it's a good idea, it's an absolutely feasible one. Crazy, right? But is it?

 

Source:  The Stir