Science is becoming scarily real, as a large factory in China is planning to have mass cloning of animals maybe even humans in accordance with commercial demand. A team of Chinese scientists want to open the world’s largest animal cloning center in Tianjin, and mass producing humans is surely next on their list.
Boyalife Will Make 1 Million Cloned Cows by 2020
The group behind this factory is Boyalife, and they’ve promised to clone 1 million cows by the time 2020 comes around, and they plan to clone primates next to aid animal research. The same technology can be used to clone humans, which is why the team has faced a lot of criticism even in the project’s initial stages.
Are Humans Next?
The group maintains that the technology exists, and there’s no point in not using it. Boyalife CEO Xu Xiaochun, however, maintains that they’re not cloning any humans… yet. He did, however, express that having cloned babies could pave the way for unusual parent setting children, specifically three-parent children.
China and South Korea Will Head the Human Cloning Effort
Boyalife is partnering with Sooam Biotech, headquartered in South Korea and led by Hwang Woosuk, who was involved in a scandal in 2004 after claiming he had cloned the very first human embryo in 2004. It turned out he had faked most of his research and had used unethical methods to get eggs from donors.
The partnership could result in the first mass producing effort for all cloning, animal and human. While this is a scary notion, it’s also an exciting one. The debates about how ethic this project is is soon to come, since there is quite a bit to be discussed in the humane-ness of clones or lack thereof.
Chinese Cloning Factory Could Replace Modern Society
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