Bringing a Species Out of Extinction
By, Rochelle Yantz
The lonely
Homo Sapien
Sapien…
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George Church
synthetic biologist
and professor at
Harvard Medical
School
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“Technologies are developing faster than ever before… Reading and
writing DNA is now about a million times faster than seven or eight
years ago” –George Church
Enlarged craniums
could lead to different
thought processes
Creates genetic
diversity to decrease
susceptibility to
epidemics
Creates a more robust
human species
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Type
Definition
Transfer of a DNA

Has been used since the 1970’s
Cloning/Recombinant
fragment of interest

Common practice in modern molecular biology
DNA Technology
from one organism
DNA

History
labs
to a self-replicating
genetic element (i.e.
bacterial plasmid)
Reproductive Cloning

Generates an animal

that has identical
Used to create Dolly the sheep who lived for six
years
nuclear DNA as
another existing
animal
Therapeutic Cloning

Production of human
embryos for use in
research (i.e. human
development and
treating diseases)

In 2001 a biotechnology company announced they
had produced the first human embryos
1.
2.
3.
4.
Sequence the Neanderthal genome
Divide genome 10,000x to synthesize
Introduce synthesized DNA to human stem cell
Repeat (eventually the stem cell line will closely correlate a
Neanderthal’s
5. Introduce DNA to surrogate mother
Neanderthal remains
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 Lacking a sense of identity
 Living under societal scrutiny
 Violating religious views on how humans are created
 Too aggressive to interact with society
 “Frankenstein” Complex
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“Are we putting it together correctly?”
- Ron Crystal, geneticist at Weill Cornell Medical College
 Monogenic Disorders
 Cystic Fibrosis
 Sickle Cell Anemia
 Fragile X Syndrome
 Huntington’s Disease
 Etc.
 http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/
medical/monogenic_disease.htm
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