MachineMachine /stream - tagged with cloning http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Should we clone Neanderthals? http://www.nextnature.net/2011/02/should-we-clone-neanderthals//nextnaturenet-exploring-the-nature-caused-by-people Next What? « http://t.co/OgnSQIf0 - Technology is never a neutral tool. It is rather a socio-cultural dimension,... http://t.co/nZ73f2eu – quin aaron shakra (jadecricket) http://twitter.com/jadecricket/status/187368761806958592 ]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:42:58 -0700 http://www.nextnature.net/2011/02/should-we-clone-neanderthals//nextnaturenet-exploring-the-nature-caused-by-people Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/raising-neanderthals-metaphysics-at-the-limits-of-science.html

A face to face encounter, devoid of the warm appeal of flesh. The eyes are glass, a cold blue crystal reflects the light in a way real eyes never would. A muzzle of hair, perhaps taken from a barbershop floor or the hind quarters of an animal. The painted scalp peeks through the sparse strands: there is nothing here one might caress with fumbling fingers, or, a millennia ago, pick between to lovingly tease out a louse or mite. The figure balances uneasily on stumps for legs. Its waxen surface bears no resemblance to skin. It is a shade saturated…

]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:30:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/raising-neanderthals-metaphysics-at-the-limits-of-science.html Raising Neanderthals http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/raising-neanderthals

In northern Spain 49,000 years ago, 11 Neanderthals were murdered. Their tooth enamel shows that each of them had gone through several periods of severe starvation, a condition their assailants probably shared. Cut marks on the bones indicate the people were butchered with stone tools. About 700 feet inside El Sidrön cave, a research team including Lalueza-Fox excavated 1,700 bones from that cannibalistic feast. Much of what is known about Neanderthal genetics comes from those 11 individuals.

Lalueza-Fox does not plan to sequence the entire genome of the El Sidrön Neanderthals. He is interested in specific genes. “I choose genes… ]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/raising-neanderthals Should We Clone Neanderthals? http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil, water, and DNA capture beads engineered in the laboratory of 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut. Over the past 4 years those beads have been gathering tiny fragments of DNA from samples of dissolved organic materials, including pieces of Neanderthal bone. Genetic sequences have given paleoanthropologists a new line of evidence for testing ideas about the biology of our closest extinct relative. The first studies of Neanderthal DNA focused on the genetic sequences of mitochondria, the microscopic organelles that convert… ]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:58:00 -0700 http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html