eli5: Why can’t we create human clones yet?

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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?

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We totally could, we don’t for ethical reasons. Some people object to the idea of replicating a person’s genes, and most people object to the much higher risk of genetic issues and birth defects we’ve noticed in clones of other animals.

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