A Canadian dentist is hoping a project aiming to map John Lennon‘s DNA code from a tooth could one day lead to the late Beatles legend being cloned by scientists.
“If scientists think they can clone mammoths, then John Lennon could be next,” Dr Michael Zuk has told The Examiner. “To potentially say I had a small part in bringing back one of rock’s greatest stars would be mind-blowing.”
Zuk bought the tooth in 2011 for over £19,000 after Lennon was reported to have given it to his housekeeper Dot Jarlett in the 1960s…as you do. And he now believes advances in science could lead to human cloning, and his mad plan, becoming a reality ‘very soon’.
“I am nervous and excited at the possibility that we will be able to fully sequence John Lennon’s DNA, very soon I hope,” he continued. “With researchers working on ways to clone mammoths, the same technology certainly could make human cloning a reality.”