Startup Pitches Brainless Human Clones for Brain Transplantation
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Victor Tangermann
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Summary
A startup has been quietly pitching the concept of creating "brainless clones" of human bodies — cloned human bodies without a brain — that could serve as vessels for brain transplantation. The idea is that aging or ill individuals could one day have their brain transplanted into a cloned version of their own body, effectively extending their lifespan. The article traces the history of animal cloning since Dolly the sheep in 1996, discusses the ethical controversies and scientific hurdles of moving from animal to human cloning, and highlights the startup's controversial pitch to investors and potential clients.
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Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996.
Transitioning from cloning animal embryos to human ones has proven far more controversial, and not only because of the litany of risks involved.
So far, scientists have only gone as far as to generate human embryo models grown stem cells and clone primates from fetal cells — rather than adult cells.
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