Just a thought but imagine if by any chance, they have already secretly succeeded in accomplishing this. And imagine if they’re already doing it in secret. Do you think this is likely?
I think it’s possible. If you can clone a sheep then why not a human?
I think this depends upon your definition of success. I think it could be done now such that you could get to a live birth, but not without serious health complications for the clone, probably resulting in an imprinting disorder or maybe something akin to progeria. You’d wind up with a sick infant instead of a healthy adult. Producing a copy of a human being as they are, if that is the definition of success, is still a ways away, probably a decade or more. This is without even considering the ethical issues with human cloning.
I don’t think cloning a human would be much harder than a sheep.
For sure, if some research institution were motivated enough. I won’t speculate if it’s happened in secret, but cloning a sheep brings us pretty close to being capable of cloning a human. I would be more surprised if 30 years since the cloning of Dolly, we haven’t advanced to the point where the only thing stopping us from cloning humans are ethical concerns.
I mean, I don’t see why not, but having a clone isn’t as big a deal as people think. Identical twins are already natural clones
Probably not cloning like scifi where exact body scars, broken bones, & memories transferred.
But china did try to hide some cloning human project researcher a while back. Not sure what happened there.
