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Neanderthal Cloning Comments Spark Controversy in Scientific Community

Cloning controversy has pushed other applications of synthetic biology to the back burner

January 25, 2013 RSS Feed Print
A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton and a modern human version of a skeleton on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton and a modern human version of a skeleton on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

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"Re-birthing of a Neanderthal might be described as a powerful, attention-getting example of something that should not be done," he writes in an E-mail to U.S. News. "To the extent that George is helping to develop interest among diverse people to learn and participate in what has historically been a technically esoteric but politically difficult topic, his efforts are a basic good of the highest form that should be celebrated."

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