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CHURCH ON FEASIBILITY OF CLONING NEANDERTHALS. "The reason I would consider it a possibility is that a bunch of technologies are developing faster than ever before. In particular, reading and writing DNA is now about a million times faster than seven or eight years ago." http://lnkd.in/dyPEj2H View in LinkedIn

NEANDERTHAL DE-EXTINCTION POSSIBLE. "Recent sequencing of Neanderthal DNA has made cloning the homo species theoretically possible, bringing us into unfamiliar ethical territory." No kidding, Sherlock. http://lnkd.in/d376uZDhttp://lnkd.in/dZRqUz7 View in LinkedIn

FROZEN FROG CELLS SUFFICIENT. "The cells in those tissues should have been ruptured by the swelling ice crystals ... But some of the cells remained reasonably intact ... transplanted the nucleus of that cell and others like it into hundreds of eggs from a closely related species ... . "One of them began to divide." http://lnkd.in/duqVsKQ View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT DNA may "have been extensively damaged over time ... In addition, ancient DNA extracts most often consist of a mixture of DNA from different sources, as fossils are colonized by environmental microbes after death ... the advent of next-generation sequencing has considerably changed this situation." https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxi/webprogram/Paper5314.html View in LinkedIn

THE LAZARUS PROJECT "revived the genome of an extinct species, the gastric-brooding frog, they had also grown embryos containing the bizarre amphibian's DNA - the crucial first step in their attempt to resurrect a dead species ... the Lazarus team could have a gastric-brooding frog hopping back to life in the next few years ... (by) somatic nuclear cell transfer." http://lnkd.in/db6TYPe View in LinkedIn

DE-EXTINCTION OF A FROG. "Famous for giving birth through its mouth .... were able to collect DNA from frozen frog tissue ... Using ... somatic cell nuclear transplantation, they deactivated eggs from the distantly related great-barred frog and swapped the nuclei with that of the gastric-brooding frog." http://lnkd.in/db7hRY6 View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS, SYNBIO, MAGE, AND DE-EXTINCTION CONVERGE. "Instead of trying to build genomes from scratch, George Church ... created MAGE, a machine that harnesses the natural principles of evolution to do all the heavy lifting ... Billions of different mutant genomes can now be generated per day." http://lnkd.in/duFFnTk View in LinkedIn

BIOTECH STARS COMBINE with iPS and re-genesis on their minds. "The Ark Corporation, is being cofounded by stem-cell pioneer Robert Lanza and Harvard Medical School DNA expert George Church ... the company's real aim is to combine cutting-edge cell biology and genome engineering in order to breed livestock and maybe even create DNA-altered pets." http://m.technologyreview.com/view/512671/a-stealthy-de-extinction-startup/ View in LinkedIn

THE GAP. "There's a big difference between sequencing a Neanderthal genome and actually cloning one. A synthetically produced genome would need to be packaged into chromosomes that can be replicated in a cell, which we don’t know how to do yet ... MAGE, could be used to alter an induced pluripotent stem cell into the genome of a Neanderthal." http://lnkd.in/dMx5dtr View in LinkedIn

CHURCH ON REGENESIS. "The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt ... to adapt existing ecosystems to radical modern environmental changes, such as global warming, and possibly reverse those changes." http://lnkd.in/d9HAGzh View in LinkedIn