Now they can clone Saudi Arabia's sexiest sheep:

 

 

 

 

Countless generations of sexual repression make people do crazy things.

We've also cloned multiple other animals including a horse . . .

 

 

 

Cloning as we know it is sort of pointless because of the high failure rate (Dolly took like 200 attempts before the nucleus transplant was successful.) Plus it doesn't have any real practical use. It's a scientific curiosity.

 

 

 

Thank you genetic conference. Lol.

 

Not so. If we perfect cloning we could un-extinct any non-human organism, as we could take a sample of the DNA from the organism before it dies out, implant it into an egg then use a similar species as the surrogate mother.

 

 

 

Easy.

 

 

 

Doing it before it dies out isn't "un-extinction." It's cloning an endangered species. And we've already done that. But as I said, there is an extremely high failure rate for the transplantation and any species that can afford to wait on that can probably recover naturally. Look at the buffalo.

 

 

 

You can't do it with a similar species either. Human and apes as I'm sure you've heard share 99% of their DNA. But can't reproduce with each other. While you skip the incompatibility somewhat by preparing the fertilized egg beforehand, there are all kinds of problems you could run into during gestation. That just adds another factor for failure.

 

Once we get to know the exact biochemistry of omnipotent stem cells we'll be a big step further towards efficient cloning. We will be getting there. No doubt about it. And then we don't have to clone a whole organism, but rather single organs, or organ systems.

 

 

 

I did research on preserving and stimulating hematopoietic stem cells, and I must say, it all looks very promising.

 

It's all extremely cool stuff. My professor and I were talking about families who have a first child with leukemia, and with the help of geneticists, they select another child with matching tissues to serve as a transplant donor. Instead of one unhealthy child, they have two healthy children. Then I asked my teacher if it would be unethical if we clone ourselves but turned off the main genes that form our head & brain, so we'd be left with perfect organ matches without the head just waiting have it's organs harvested. He said the surrogate mother would freak out when they'd give birth to a headless baby :lol:

I'll care when I can get a personal clone to harvest organs from so I can do whatever I want with no consequence.