{"id":13826,"date":"2014-04-12T04:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dentist-wants-to-clone-john-lennon\/"},"modified":"2014-04-12T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T04:25:27","slug":"dentist-wants-to-clone-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dentist-wants-to-clone-john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist Wants to Clone John Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{A dentist wants to make a clone of John Lennon. <\/p>\n

Michael Zuk purchased a tooth belonging to the late star – who was a member of legendary rock band The Beatles – at an auction for $33 000 and is hoping to extract enough DNA to be able create a clone. }} <\/p>\n

Speaking on Channel 4’s Dead Famous DNA, he explained: ”If there is enough DNA to sequence it, it could be basically genetic real estate. <\/p>\n

”My aim is to own John Lennon’s DNA.”<\/p>\n

Dr Zuk revealed that once cloning technology is advanced enough to replicate a human, he plans to use the molar to clone the deceased singer and will then raise him as his own child.<\/p>\n

He said: ”He could be looked at as my son… He would still be his exact duplicate but you know, hopefully keep him away from drugs and cigarettes, that kind of thing. <\/p>\n

”But you know, guitar lessons wouldn’t hurt anyone right?’<\/p>\n

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{{A dentist wants to make a clone of John Lennon. Michael Zuk purchased a tooth belonging to the late star – who was a member of legendary rock band The Beatles – at an auction for $33 000 and is hoping to extract enough DNA to be able create a clone. }} Speaking on Channel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051602,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13826.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}