Human Clone Through The Wormhole

Human Clone Through the Wormhole

Imagine a world where a woman could bring back her deceased husband, by giving birth to him. Or, a man could bring back his mother and raise her as his daughter. If we have a living cell of a dead person, certainly, we could in theory clone that individual. We published a paper about a year or two ago, where we show we can actually now create human embryos that are genetically identical to a normal embryo. The only way you would really know whether you could clone a human being is actually implant that embryo into the uterus of a surrogate mother. Of course, we cannot implant those, that would be considered unethical so it’s unclear whether or not they would give rise to a human being.
Society has vehemently rejected reproductive human cloning. In this climate, it is extremely difficult for geneticists to obtain funding for their research. There is also a shortage of material. So, one of the problems with human cloning is the supply of eggs. So with a mouse or cow, we can get literally hundreds, if not, thousands of eggs. We can go to the slaughter house, for instance, get them for a dollar each, and get thousands of these cow eggs. With the humans, it took us over a year to just get 5 eggs. Even if you have the eggs, it could take hundreds of pregnancies to perfect human cloning. A process that could result in scores of babies with horrific genetic damage. There’d be very much like if you want to clone your child, you would sending them up with a rocket, with a 50-50 chance that it would blow up. In most of the world, cloning humans is not illegal. One day, a rogue scientist will pull it off. But, cloning a person is not the same as duplicating a person. A lot of people, you know, who have the pets, they want often to clone them. They want Fluffy back, and what I tell them is that “You are not gonna get Fluffy back.” As a matter of fact, we actually clone entire herds of cows, from a single cell from the same animal. And they develop a whole hierarchy just like we do in humans. So you have timid cows, and aggressive cows, and they are all clones. So they develop their own behavioral pattern, so the environment has a very profound impact on your development. Let’s say we decide to take DNA from Einstein’s hair and grow some new Einsteins. Those clones would not be the man who wrote E=mc2. Each would have a unique personality shaped by his environment. Clones are like identical twins, born years apart. They may be similar, but they will not be the same. Perhaps the key to life after death is not to grow an entire new body, but to resurrect the one you have.