alt Hacker NewsHe literally succeeded in performing a literal cloning of a complex mammalian subject? How rich is this guy, how well-staffed his lab, how is he achieving things that state-level labs struggle to do?
I am unsure whether I believe that this was an actual cloning, and not just some sort of old-fashioned hybridization or something. Because this guy should be awarded a science medal instead. What really is the legal issue with creating your own mammals just to be held captive and hunted for food?
It seems weird, but unsurprising, they'd throw the book at him, and make an example of him, lest someone else strike out on their own with such a complex biomedical challenge!
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Salgat • 10/01/2024
He paid a lab, he just supplied the tissue.
Cloning animals isn't actually that hard. We did it in the 90's with Dolly IIRC. There just isn't a whole lot of practical use for it apart from human cloning, which is illegal.
It's pretty straightforward: you take an egg cell, suck out its genome and replace it with a new one. Then you implant that egg in a host and it is gestated and born in the usual way. The tricky part back then was extracting the from adult cell samples, but modern genomics is way past that. It's pretty much the same process as creating a new bacterium, which is done quite commonly as I understand.