I’m not a biologist or scientist, but I’m genuinely curious why we can’t create clones of people?
With the computational power we have these days, shouldn’t we be able to compute all options to understand how things work from the foundation up?
Is the research cost too high? Or is this already being done?
In: Biology
We can. However, because it’s so ethically questionable, no known attempt has yet been made. We do clone human cells for labwork, but in conditions where they just grow as undifferentiated clusters of cells, instead of with all the complexity of a foetus. For example, there’s something called the HeLa cell line. This has been absolutely vital for research for many decades now, and the line consists of countless clones of cells from a woman called Henrietta Lacks. They’re just immortalised cancer cells floating in baths of cow blood, but in a sense, clones of Lacks have outlived her by almost 70 years.
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