/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12681746]

>Make an embryonic clone of yourself and implant it in a womans uterus (like what was done with Dolly the sheep)
>Suppress the hox-genes responsible for making the head segment in the developing embryo
>It never develops a head
>When it is birthed, hook it up to some nutrition via IV
>Administer the correct hormones as it grows and let it grow to 16-18 years old
And voila, you have a genetically identical organ bank that you can also transplant your head onto if you want a younger body.

Could this actually work in practice eventually?

[Anonymous No.12681749]

Based

[Anonymous No.12682603]

Bump

[Anonymous No.12682613]

>>12681746
this is true genius

[Anonymous No.12682616]

>no head
Wouldnt it have a deformed neck/upper torso?

[Anonymous No.12682618]

>>12681746
>get head transplant
>end up getting mogged by HOX disorder
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096719213003600

[Anonymous No.12682661]

>>12681746
Not a geneticist or biologist here, so sorry for my brainlet response, but would at least a brain stem develop to control the heart and autonomous breathing? Also wouldn't all the muscles in your clone severely atrophy due to lack of use? And with absolutely no use of their digestive tract, they would never develop an intestinal microbiome, which from what I've read, plays an extremely important role in overall health. Again, I'm not a biologist. Other than that, yes, I would love my own personalized organ bank.

[Anonymous No.12682676]

DNA age is still the same as your current age and degenerates over time.

Clones are molecularly identical to the donor, even in dna age. Dollys clones had extremely hampered age spans.

[Anonymous No.12682686]

>>12682676
Would work for back up organs though. But it wont prolong age indefinitely.

[Anonymous No.12682692]

>>12681746
You'd be in for a reckoning when the headless golem gains consciousness

[Anonymous No.12682728]

>>12681746
Kids nowdays don't have a brain anyway so don't bother with the HOX genes.

[Anonymous No.12683354]

>>12681746
Short answer, yes maybe.

Long answer, you would have to take care of that body pretty well, just like you take care of your actual body, it would need a brainstem, and would need lots of things like excercise, vitamins, and immune stimulations.

technically you could go the whole boba fett route without cutting off "your head" and just raise your clone.

If you really wanted to be an evil asshole with no regards for human life, you could perhaps kill your own clone after raising them

[Anonymous No.12683471]

>>12681746
I would suggest just stopping it from growing a brain. Then all you have to transplant is the brain. Less shit to connect up, and no anoying neck seam. Maybe ill try doing it with a rat. My lab should be ready to handle this kind of project by summer.

[Anonymous No.12685111]

>>12681746
Clones as we know how to do them now maintain age information in genes. Meaning of you clone yourself at 30 in 18 years it will have the decay of s 48 year old man

[Anonymous No.12685139]

>>12681746
first thought synthesized after reading this: sex slave

[Anonymous No.12685199]

>>12681746
the ultra-rich could do it, but for us plebs it'd probably be factory farmed
How well do frozen organs last, anyways?

[Anonymous No.12685219]

>>12685111
Wouldn't the logical way out of that just be saving genetic material taken at birth/early age?

[Anonymous No.12685229]

>>12681746
based

[Anonymous No.12685230]

>>12682686
>Would work for back up organs though
organs would have shorter and old telomeres too I guess

[Anonymous No.12685784]

>>12681746
>Do what OP describes
>But also megadose DHT and other androgens to give clone a megacock
>Transplant 12 inch donger onto yourself
Nice

[Anonymous No.12685879]

>>12681746
Need(?) brain stem for its regulatory abilities.

[Anonymous No.12685957]

>>12685199
>frozen
They dont, ice crystals forming in the cells will destroy them