Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims

An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the possibility of having another you in the future. "Human cloning could happen within the next half century, claims a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Sir John Gurdon, the British developmental biologist whose research cloning frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep in 1996, believes that human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. He said that parents who lose their children to tragic accidents might be able to clone replacements in the next few decades. Gurdon, who won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, said that while any attempts to clone a human would likely raise complex ethical issues, he believes that in the near future people would overcome their concerns if cloning became medically useful."

Re:Cloning for organ farming

[xstonedogx]

You took the wrong lesson away from The Island. The correct lesson: clone Scarlett.

Re:Cloning is already useful!

[etash]

you're such a _heartless_ person!

Re:Replace a dead child?

[PolygamousRanchKid]

Kid: "Mom, I want a skateboard!"

Mom: "No, you'll fall off a handrail doing a trick with it, crack your head open, and die."

Kid: "No I won't!"

Mom: "Trust me, this is the third time that I've been through this . . . "

Hopefully this means therapeutic cloning

[NotSoHeavyD3]

So an infection killed your kidney? You need a transplant but we'll just create a new working clone of your kidney from almost any cell in your body and implant that.(Hopefully no rejection but MD's here can tell me if that's true or not.) Hey, got cancer? Cloning may help with that. Clone yourself a whole new body that doesn't have a brain and implant your brain in that. (As long as the cancer hasn't metastasize into your brain this would theoretically work. Yeah, I know reattaching all the nerves and blood vessels is going to be a bitch.) Hell you could even cure some genetic diseases with this. You have a genetic defect that makes your liver not work? Take your dna, fix the issue then clone a good liver from that. (Yes, I know a lot of this is going to be difficult but in theory a lot of this should work.)

Re:Human cloning is a gimmick.

[RockDoctor]

Same thing happened to John Smith.

Re:Instead of cloning, have sex

[Digital Vomit]

You believe that brains can magically make energy appear.

Of course. Haven't you seen that documentary, The Matrix?