{"id":34976,"date":"2017-03-01T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/forget-mammoths-we-could-bring-dinosaurs-and-neanderthals-back-to-life"},"modified":"2021-11-19T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:53:56","slug":"forget-mammoths-we-could-bring-dinosaurs-and-neanderthals-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/forget-mammoths-we-could-bring-dinosaurs-and-neanderthals-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8c-EWSmOgDc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dangerous thought.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The scientific world was set ablaze of late as discussions ramped up about the resurrection of the wholly mammoth. I know what you\u2019re thinking: <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>. Well, not quite \u2014 but maybe not that far off, either. <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/experts\/michiokaku\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Michio Kaku<\/a>, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, wonders: what if we could clone the Neanderthal, or a dinosaur, based solely off their genomes?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arep.med.harvard.edu\/gmc\/\">George Church<\/a>, geneticist and director of Harvard University\u2019s Church Labs, believes that we can clone a Neanderthal in our lifetime. So much so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/26447-neanderthal-clone-church.html\" target=\"_blank\">he thinks all we need<\/a> is \u201cone extremely adventurous human female.\u201d While he doesn\u2019t advocate for the project to be attempted straight away, he does encourage discussion on the matter. Church believes that with current stem cell technology and our completed sequence of the Neanderthal genome, we are equipped with the potential to clone a Neanderthal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal_extinction\" target=\"_blank\">Neanderthals went extinct<\/a> tens of thousands of years ago, so cloning one from recovered DNA would be impressive enough of a feat \u2014 but what about something from 65 <em>million<\/em> years ago? Dr. Kaku addresses this, admitting that cloning a dinosaur won\u2019t be as easy as cloning a Neanderthal or a mammoth (which wouldn\u2019t very \u201ceasy\u201d to begin with) \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s impossible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/forget-mammoths-we-could-bring-dinosaurs-and-neanderthals-back-to-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/forget-mammoths-we-could-bring-dinosaurs-and-neanderthals-back-to-life\">Continue reading \u201cForget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous thought. The scientific world was set ablaze of late as discussions ramped up about the resurrection of the wholly mammoth. I know what you\u2019re thinking: Jurassic Park. Well, not quite \u2014 but maybe not that far off, either. Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, wonders: what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130885,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions\/130885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}