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THE NEANDERTHAL GENOME PROJECT, "a collaborative effort between Max Planck Institute and 454 Life Sciences. A high-quality Neanderthal genome sequence: the genome sequence was generated from a toe bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia in 2010." http://lnkd.in/dMx5dtr View in LinkedIn

NEANDERTHAL CLONES (II). "If we do that often enough, then we would generate a stem cell line that would get closer and closer to the corresponding sequence of the Neanderthal. We developed the semi-automated procedure ... Finally, we assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone." http://lnkd.in/dZuy7g4 View in LinkedIn

CHURCH ON NEANDERTHAL CLONES (I). "The first thing ... is to sequence the Neanderthal genome ... been done. The next step would be to chop this genome up ... and then synthesize these. Finally, you would introduce these chunks into a human stem cell." http://lnkd.in/dZuy7g4 View in LinkedIn

CHURCH ON CLONING HUMANS. "Another technology that the de-extinction of a Neanderthal would require is human cloning. We can clone all kinds of mammals, so it's very likely that we could clone a human. Why shouldn't we be able to do so?" http://lnkd.in/dyPEj2H View in LinkedIn

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