A blog about research, awareness, prevention, treatment and survivorship of Breast Cancer and all cancers, including targeted scientific research and a grassroots approach to increase screening for cancer, especially in the low income and under-insured population of El Paso, Texas, with a view to expand this new health care model to many other 'minority' populations across the United States and beyond
Monday, May 20, 2013
You want to follow where science is going?
"Recently, there was a bit of an internet uproar when some outlets took
an interview that Church gave a German newspaper out of context and made
it sound as if he were looking to clone Neanderthals. He’s not. But
this is the kind of technology that one would use to bring back
Neanderthals or, for that matter, mammoths, when their actual DNA is
lost to time. Church has said that, in theory, this could be done by
changing the genes of a human stem cell (in the case of a Neanderthal)
or an elephant (in the case of the mammoth) to match a prehistoric
relative. If you want to bring back ice age animals, Cas9 might be the
way to do it." M.Harper...go to article
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