Grow Humans Using Skin Cells

I recently read an article published here about Chinese scientists fully growing mice using their skin cells. They claim that “tremendous good can come from demonstrating the versatility of reprogrammed cells in mice”, angood that can be used to “understand the root causes of disease and lead to viable treatments and cures of human afflictions.”

Rhetoric aside, this means that it is almost certainly possible to create human clones simply using the cells in their skin, or perhaps in the future cloning a person using a cell from anywhere in the body and perhaps even dead cells from the hair! Think of the future of forensic science as clones of murderes can be made to positively identify the criminals or how much easier it would be to have someone look exactly your friend by simply picking up their stray hairs and going to the local cloning facility! Of course all of these will have their respective ‘ethical’ barriers but would still be possible and most likley realizable. Both sides have their merits, as clones should be granted the same rights as non-clones.

Other possible uses for cloning are simply cloning humans for organ collection or mass production of short-lived ‘supersoldiers’.