Dispensary Corner 21 Jan 13
January 21, 2013
TANNING accountability.
The MTV show Jersey Shore is
being called to account for its role
in promoting tanning by the US
Skin Cancer Foundation.
The reality show, a favourite and
staple on MTV, has millions of
followers, and tracks the partying
lifestyles of eight housemates
spending their summer on the
Jersey Shore in New Jersey.
The complaint alleges that MTV
utilised a complex web of
programing, advertising and
promotion to glamorise and
endorse excessive tanning as
socially enhancing and beneficial,
through use of the cast's “Gym,
Tan, Laundry” ritual, without
disclosing the related health risks.
RETURN of the Neanderthal?
A US geneticist George Church
is calling for an “adventurous”
female volunteer to be impregnated
with a Neanderthal baby.
The geneticist, George Church,
says he has collected enough DNA
from fossil bones to reconstruct
Neanderthal DNA, and now needs
a womb to continue the project.
Speaking to media, Church set
aside ethical issues, saying that
instead of creating a Neanderthal
for “scientific curiosity” his aim
was to increase diversity.
“The one thing that is bad for
society is low diversity,” he said.
“If you become a monoculture,
you are at great risk of perishing,”
he added.
Discussing how the cloning
would be done, Church said that
after sequencing the Neanderthal
genome (which has been done),
the next step is to chop this genome
up into 10,000 chunks and
synthesising these, afterwhich the
chunks would be introduced into
a human stem cell.
“If we do that often enough, then
we would generate a stem cell line
that would get closer and closer
to the corresponding sequence of
the Neanderthal,” he said.
“Finally, we assemble all the
chunks in a human stem cell, which
would enable you to finally create
a Neanderthal clone,” he added.
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