Just a thought but imagine if by any chance, they have already secretly succeeded in accomplishing this. And imagine if they’re already doing it in secret. Do you think this is likely?
For sure, if some research institution were motivated enough. I won’t speculate if it’s happened in secret, but cloning a sheep brings us pretty close to being capable of cloning a human. I would be more surprised if 30 years since the cloning of Dolly, we haven’t advanced to the point where the only thing stopping us from cloning humans are ethical concerns.
I don’t think cloning a human would be much harder than a sheep.
I mean, I don’t see why not, but having a clone isn’t as big a deal as people think. Identical twins are already natural clones
I think it’s possible. If you can clone a sheep then why not a human?
I think this depends upon your definition of success. I think it could be done now such that you could get to a live birth, but not without serious health complications for the clone, probably resulting in an imprinting disorder or maybe something akin to progeria. You’d wind up with a sick infant instead of a healthy adult. Producing a copy of a human being as they are, if that is the definition of success, is still a ways away, probably a decade or more. This is without even considering the ethical issues with human cloning.
Probably not cloning like scifi where exact body scars, broken bones, & memories transferred.
But china did try to hide some cloning human project researcher a while back. Not sure what happened there.
