Cloning - yes or no?
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unclehobart
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chcr, Not offhand. Its just something that I remember as familiar from the past as well.
Puter, Its not so cut and dried as that. Its almost harder on the clones in ways because the new body has to go through another bout of puberty and general growth... which can be triggered earlier because of the cells age. A second round of hormonal hell has an unknown, but presumed stressful, reaction to the cell structure. A candle that burns bright... in this case, bright twice ... burns faster. The basic body may still be of a basic enough health to survive a full tenured life ... but the predispositions and schizms become more entrenched and apparent on the clones... stuff like breast cancers. They are linked to hormonal triggers in some cases. A second bout of puberty on the same cellular print base would take an incidental 10% risk group and bump them up to like 15%... or even 20%.
Puter, Its not so cut and dried as that. Its almost harder on the clones in ways because the new body has to go through another bout of puberty and general growth... which can be triggered earlier because of the cells age. A second round of hormonal hell has an unknown, but presumed stressful, reaction to the cell structure. A candle that burns bright... in this case, bright twice ... burns faster. The basic body may still be of a basic enough health to survive a full tenured life ... but the predispositions and schizms become more entrenched and apparent on the clones... stuff like breast cancers. They are linked to hormonal triggers in some cases. A second bout of puberty on the same cellular print base would take an incidental 10% risk group and bump them up to like 15%... or even 20%.
Ok, so basically then, if they figure out how to control the rapid aging in clones, they will probably also figure out how to controlt the aging in the originals as well then. At least it seems to me it would be a similar process. I'm not sure I really want to live forever though.
unclehobart
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Yeah... That kind of longevity would screw up the planet damn quick. The growth curve would be insane.
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In theory, a clone should live as long as the donor from which his/her genetic information was taken. Our current methods and understanding are limited, but that isn't a physical limit, just a knowledge limit.
DNA could be taken from the donor and used to directly replace the DNA in a zygote (or whatever the earliest embryonic stage is called). When we figure out how to do this, we should be able to remove practically all "cloning induced" abnormalities.
DNA could be taken from the donor and used to directly replace the DNA in a zygote (or whatever the earliest embryonic stage is called). When we figure out how to do this, we should be able to remove practically all "cloning induced" abnormalities.
