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My understanding is that though there is reason to think it wouldn't be any more difficult in principle than cloning horses there would inevitably be a great de
by space_fountain 8y ago
My understanding is that though there is reason to think it wouldn't be any more difficult in principle than cloning horses there would inevitably be a great deal of failure on the way to perfecting the techniques. For example cloning Dolly required 434 failed attempts. Three of those made it to term but died very soon after birth. Those are pretty poor odds to put a child through.
I think while you describe the basic technique in practice it's more difficult to do and especially to apply to a new species than you describe. Here's a paper on the first cloning of a monkey https://www.academia.edu/36564149/ https://www.academia.edu/36564149/. Just scroll down to see the full paper. It's not all that short or simple
- max76 8y agoDolly was born 22 years ago and was the first mammal cloned with this process. While there might be some failures for an organization attempting to clone a human I suspect an organization with prior cloning experience could reduce the failure rate by an order of magnitude.