First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along

Vegeta99 writes "An Italian researcher is claiming ground-breaking progress, and has successfully cloned a human, and the mother is now 8 weeks pregnant, according to this article. Now how long until I can buy my own clone?" It's worth noting that the Roman medical associations bioethicists denied Dr. Antinori permission to proceed with these experiments last month. So doing the math, Rome was a little late... If the pregnancy continues without miscarriage, the tyke may share a birthday with Marie Curie

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That'll be nice for the kid then

[flipflapflopflup]

Worse than growing up and finding out you were an accident, this kid grows up, and finds out he is illegal!

Nice.

As Johnso14, I have to agree

[Johnso]

Most couples they had interviewed, he said, wanted to have a biological child of their own. In fact, cloning creates ordinary children who grow up to be unique individuals, he claimed.

Unique individuals, like my brother Johnso1, Johnso2, Johnso3...

Re:As Johnso14, I have to agree

[selderrr]

let's hope cloning devices are not MS based, or that would be Johnso~1, Johnso~2, Johnso~3, ...

He'll have a cool introduction at parties

[SweenyTod]

Clone: Hello! I'm #15
Cute Chick: Well hello hansome! What star sign are you?
Clone: Pyrex
Cute Chick: Ohhh baby!

And things go downhill from there.

Re:what's wrong with clones anyways?

[javilon]

" They're simply time-shifted identical twins!"

Well, then maybe the RIAA has something to say about it!

Uh oh....

[DohDamit]

Looks likes its confirmed: slashdotters will finally be able to reproduce. Kinda. Of course, I didn't say anything about getting laid....

me.clone();

[LadyLucky]

throw new CloneNotSupportedException();

Re:what's wrong with clones anyways?

[BlueUnderwear]

Well, then maybe the RIAA has something to say about it!

First we clone just the music, then we clone the performers themselves! If a musician has a contract with the RIAA, is that contract also binding for all his clones?

Re:What I want to know is:

[duct_tape_n_wd40]

"Is the sex of a human baby determined partially by temperature, like in chickens? Could I technically have a female clone?"

Uh, no. What determines the sex of a baby is whether daddy kicks in a Y-chromosome (boy) or an X-chromosome (girl).

Of course a clone doesn't have a daddy, so somebody might imagine doing a little test-tube magic to change the gender of a clone. In fact, a couple of obscure SF writers (Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov) did just this. They even wrote a song about it. Get out your guitar and sing along with me now, it sounds a little bit like "Home on the Range"


Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.

Chorus: Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.

Oh, give me a clone
Hear my sorrowful moan
A clone that is wholly my own.
And if she's an X
Of the feminine sex
Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.

(Chorus)

My heart's not of stone,
As I've frequently shown
When alone with my own little X
And after we've dined
I am sure we will find
Better incest than Oedipus Rex.

(Chorus)

Why should such sex vex
Or disturb or perplex
Or induce a disparaging tone.
After all, don't you see
Since we're both of us me
When we're having sex, I'm alone.

(Chorus)

And after I'm done
She will still have her fun
For I'll clone myself twice ere I die.
And this time without fail,
They'll be both of them male
And they'll ravage her by and by.

(Chorus)
(Chorus)