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Stealing DNA isn't sufficient, you'd need to steal live cells.
by Metacelsus 3y ago
Stealing DNA isn't sufficient, you'd need to steal live cells.
- lockhouse 3y agoWhich still isn't particularly difficult. We shed live cells all the time.
- inglor_cz 3y agoImagine the situation when a well-meaning celebrity donates blood, someone unscrupulous steals a vial of it, and, a year later ... that poor guy has several hundred kids and is actually their mother. Could be done, if you have a reliable method of turning human white blood cells back to stem cells and then to ova.
- analog31 3y agoNews stories about the children of celebrities should be enough to dissuade this. But all joking aside, I suspect the main interest will be in people getting eggs from their own cells. Now sperm might be another matter, especially given the premium on being tall.