X-Message-Number: 5901 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics From: (Brad Templeton) Subject: Real cryonics application Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:45:13 GMT Message-ID: <> References: <> <4hl242$> Well, today a real cryonics application appeared. With the successful cloning of higher mammals, if you have a kid, you should fertilize the kid in vitro, wait until it has about 128 cells, take a bunch of them and implant the DNA in the mother's eggs, and if viable embryos form, freeze them to liquid N2 temperature. Then, later in life, your kid could have a clone made. Of course, likely to be highly illegal, even if all the clone was was a normal child. Don't even ask the lawyers about what happens if you raise the clone brain-dead as an organ bank. However, chances are in 30 years another technology will come along to allow organ reconstruction or growth or the implanatation of organs without matching DNA -- or cloning from methylated DNA -- so you would not need it. -- Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp. The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,200,000 paid sbscrbrs.) http://www.clari.net/brad/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5901