"R3 Bio's founders secretly have a far more ambitious goal in mind: creating entire 'brainless clones' of the human body that aging or ill individuals could one day transplant their brain into."
"Such structures would contain all typical organs excluding the brain, ultimately serving as a source for donor organs and tissues."
"To call the idea ethically fraught would be a vast understatement."
"Despite an insider likening a pitch they heard from R3's founder to a 'close encounter of the third kind' with 'Dr. Strangelove', the company has since distanced itself from the idea of brainless human clones."
Since the mid-1990s, cloning has focused on animals, with Dolly the sheep as the first cloned mammal. Transitioning to human cloning is controversial due to risks and ethical concerns. R3 Bio, a startup, aims to create non-sentient monkey organ sacks for organ donation. However, their ultimate goal is to develop brainless human clones for organ transplants, raising significant ethical dilemmas. The company has distanced itself from the idea of brainless clones despite insider comparisons to dystopian scenarios.
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