Has it been deployed?
by Preston James
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| Clones
of clones of clones … Frankenstein-like mistakes could come back to
haunt you in 20,000 years. Or sooner, if there is time travel |
Cloning of animals has been achieved by Chinese researchers
and others using cell samples recovered from the deceased parent animal.
It is a slow and expensive process taking many months.
Wealthy folks who want to clone a favorite, beloved pet have been the
only ones able to afford this, but that may be changing rapidly.
Cloning of a favorite pet has produced mixed results, with
many clones supposedly not living as long as normal, and some having
strange health problems.
Numerous labs around the world are advertising cloning services and
many new treatments for gene-based disorders; and these are rapidly
being developed all over the world, using state-of-the-art genetic
engineering technology.
Cloning has been ultra-expensive; and those who have cloned their
favorite animals that have died have paid a small fortune for the clone.
With the genetic-engineering technologies appearing publicly
within the last few years, cloning is expected to become cheaper and
more effective.
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Cloning organs or whole organisms
takes a large check,
but the price is coming down
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The first animal cloning used
Somatic
Cell
Nuclear
Transfer (
SCNT)
technology, but some of the clones developed unusual, lifespan-limiting
health issues, like Dolly, which was one of the first public clones.
This animal died early of an unexpected lung disease.
A new gene-editing technology has been developed that allows removal
of disorder-causing genes and substitution of healthier ones. This is
the
CRISPR (
Clustered
Regularly
Interspaced
Short
Palindromic
Repeats) gene-editing technology, which is so advanced that it allows the replacement of individual genes.
And there is the new
SHEEF stem cell technology that creates “
Synthetic
Human
Entities with
Embryo like
Features”.
This technology could easily lead to the growing of one’s own
identical, human replacement organs inside or outside one’s own body,
perhaps in an artificial fluid-maintained womb.
LASSO (Long-adapter single-strand oligonucleotide)
cloning can now clone thousands of cells at once; and human stem cells
can be coaxed to grow into eggs and sperm. LASSO is predicted to
significantly speed up the process of cloning.
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Use of fertilized human embryos for body parts – outcry
A great public outcry led many politicians all over
the world to pass laws and limit the use of human eggs being fertilized
for genetic embryonic experiments.
However, this
led to secret labs and various programs classified deep within the
Shadow Government Defense Contractor system, some growing fertilized
human embryos into large fetuses in synthetic wombs comprised of plastic
sacs fed by various life-giving fluids.
Some of these secret experiments have undoubtedly been used for evil,
Frankenstein-like purposes. The whole subject of stem cells from
embryotic cells is a political hot-potato, but has been solved by a
veterinarian.