With articles like this one a question always comes to my mind that I could google the answer to but then forget, again: What makes it so hard to clone just the organs of a body? The obvious benefits of this for saving millions of lives are there, so why isn't the technology available if a whole body can be cloned? Is there no genuinely applied research being done on it?
If you never watched the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, The Sixth Day, I would recommend it. It is stupid but also somewhat intelligent in it's "science run amok" plotline. Also, Arnold was great because now you have two of him!
Couldn’t this become dangerous for adaptability if done in massive quantities? Say for example cloning chickens for some traits, and eventually ending up with most chickens in the future having very little genetical variability?
Is there a difference between a clone and an identical twin (other than sharing a womb)?
Technology can copy the body, but not the soul. What moves us is never sameness—it’s uniqueness.
“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”
As humans could...
It would be staggering if the first human clone has not already been born. I would also be at least a little surprised if we don't discover that Elon Musk has cloned himself.
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I skimmed the article, searched for "human" and human cloning does get discussed at the end of the article.
Obviously a clone of someone will (should?) only look like the person, but could have a totally different personality due to a different upbringing and environment, but it seems people want to do it anyway...
We obsess with fictional clones and beliefs they would be very identical to "us" when the reality is clones show epigenetic variability and are genetically clones, but display structural differences in form and colour and behaviour. Skin colour in multicoloured animals is determined by fetal positioning and exposure to outside forces. Identical twin Friesian calves don't have the same pelt patterns.
This scientist cloned fat levels in muscle flesh, not identical, but trending to a type. Exercise and diet would change how fat marbled meat presented.