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Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby

cough View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 03:53 PM Post #1
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Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby WTF? Surely no ethics committee would pass this?

Pooks*potters View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:03 PM Post #2
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Nah, they wouldn't. Fascinating idea though!

libbylu View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:05 PM Post #3
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There is no way it would ever get through an ethics committee. It is one thing to find a gestational carrier - that bit is not such an issue. Finding someone to donate their embryo - their own DNA to be altered, would be more of a challenge ......but the most pressing ethical concern is that you just can't create a human life for the purpose of a human experiment. The baby would have no parents and would essentially be a human guinea pig. Added to this that it would probably take hundreds of attempts (meaning miscarriages or foetuses incompatible with life) to make it work. An interesting idea though.

tamietamara View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:06 PM Post #4
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If this is even possible, then why hasn't someone stopped women's leg and underarm hair from growing by now??? Now that is one of the world's big issues in need of solving.... This post has been edited by tamietamara: 21/01/2013, 04:07 PM

countrymel View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:07 PM Post #5
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Yeah.. no ethics committee anywhere would pass that. The fact that the story only seems to be appearing in the Daily Fail lends weight to the argument too!

stopwhiningatme View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:19 PM Post #6
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No way would I do it. Teenagers are feral enough without adding Neanderthal to the mix.

Oriental lily View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:19 PM Post #7
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No ethic committee will pass it. Thats of course if the idea is presented towards a ethic comitee. It's a bit naive to think, especially in developing countries,that human cloning experimentation is not going on already. Probably with horrible results. I think however we will have wooly mammoth in our age again. That would be pretty amazing.

Shooz View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:43 PM Post #8
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I'm sure if it ever got to the go ahead stage there would be someone willing to do anything it takes for the right amount of compensation!

ubermum View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:50 PM Post #9
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Exactly what I thought everyone. If it ever happens, it will have to be done dodgy.

squeekums View Member Profile	21/01/2013, 04:57 PM Post #10
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Wheres my coffee?
I saw the headline online and thought it was a joke!

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