I must have missed this one, but this is what the the online magazine Britian's Daily Mail ran recently:
- “Wanted: ‘Adventurous Neanderthal man — Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby
Geneticist George Church the Harvard scientist in the middle of this mess says that the story was completely untrue! Church said that the real story centers around an article he was interviewed for in the German magazine Der Spiegel in which he said that:
- such a cloning might theoretically be possible someday
Whoever wrote the article for Britain's Daily Mail mis-translated the article and came to the conclusion that Church was actively looking for a woman to host a child from the DNA scrapings of Neanderthal bones.
Church goes on to say that he wasn't even involved in the gene sequencing! In fact, he goes on to say, his line of research is in how to use DNA to improve health, produce synthetic fuels, and other products, not cloning ancient humans!
