Do you remember how scientists have recently announced they intend to clone mammoths? It seems that mammoths are no longer fashionable, now scientists are focusing on the idea: What about cloning dinosaurs and Neanderthals?

In an interview for Big Think, Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of physics at City College, New York, what would happen if we could revive Neanderthals or dinosaurs using their genomes?

Do we have the right technology? From a technical point of view, we could, but such an idea raises a number of questions from which the biggest nut is bioethics. Is it ethical to clone the Neanderthal? Is it inhuman? Should we attempt at it at all?

What we need to clone

According to Dr. George Church, the genetics and director of the Harvard University Laboratory, we can clone the Neanderthal, and we can do it. The only thing to do we need is an extremely courageous woman. However, Dr. Church does not speak that we should begin the cloning of the Neanderthals right now, but it encourages the scientific community to discuss this matter.

Dr. Church believes that we have the current stem cell technology and complete sequences of the Neanderthal genome equipped with all the necessary assumptions for successful cloning of the Neanderthal.

Idea cloning Neanderthal dates back to 2013, when Dr. For the first time, the Church has said it will be possible. In that time Arthur Caplan, a bioethics scientist at the Center for Bioethics at NYU, said the idea of ​​cloning the Neanderthal is bordering on simple ethical misuse of man. The Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years ago. Cloning such an individual could trigger an era in which science and medicine would break out of ethical constraints.

Cloning dinosaurs?

And if we can clone Neanderthals? We are not saying that we really ought to do it, but what if we tried to clone other living beings? Those that existed on Earth before 65 for millions of years? What to try to clone the dinosaurs? I guess what made you first - Jurský park live.

Doctor Kaku is convinced that successfully cloning the dinosaur would be a really demanding project, much more demanding than cloning a Neanderthal or mammoth. But nothing is impossible!

According to Dr. Kak, we need to create a genetic sequence to clone the dinosaurs. This could be achieved by using a super computer. Proteins found in soft tissues of dinosaur femurs are similar to those derived from chickens, frogs and reptiles. Once we have succeeded in creating a genetic sequence, we could create prerequisites for future cloning of dinosaurs.

Cloning - is it a good idea?

We have the tools, but should we try it at all? When we think about cloning dinosaurs and mammoths, we are not dealing with ethical issues. But when we think about cloning the living people, the question of ethics is at the forefront. Dr. Kaku asks several questions for reflection:

• What would a company do if a child with Neanderthal genes were really born?
• Would this child be captured and examined?
• Could the Neanderthal be able to function in our world?
• Would the Neanderthal be naturally aggressive?

Many scientists agree that Neanderthal cloning is too inhumane, and we should not even attempt it. Few can imagine the possible consequences of this action…