@michaelthrive: If cloning a human is impossible, why did so many countries ban it? 👀 Human embryos were cloned in a lab in 2013. Monkeys were cloned in 2018. And a cloned rhesus monkey named Retro reached adulthood, as reported in 2024. To be clear, no cloned human has ever been proven to exist. But the question stands: why ban something that can't be done? Follow for topics your feed won't show you. Sources: Cell (2013), Cell (2018), Nature Communications (2024) #cloning #Science #genetics #biotech #bioethics