The Reproductive-Therapeutic Seam (Cloning Substrate-vs-Announcement)
Open questionThe lab techniques for 'therapeutic' cloning (making stem cells) build the same egg-procurement and embryo-handling infrastructure that reproductive cloning would need; monkey cloning is now standardized, yet no born human clone exists. The open tension: the public framing of 'banned and technically impossible' sits on top of a continuously advancing capability — but the claim that '95% of the infrastructure for a born clone' already exists is held as a reasoned lean, not a finding.
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[Report #108 — Cloning/Eugenics Lens] Therapeutic cloning (SCNT for stem cells — Mitalipov/OHSU derived human blastocysts + ESC lines, Cell 2013) builds the same oocyte-procurement and blastocyst-management infrastructure as reproductive cloning. Primate SCNT is now standardized (CAS macaques Zhong Zhong/Hua Hua 2018; rhesus Retro 2024) yet no born human clone exists. The public 'banned / technically impossible' framing is the announcement layer over a continuous capability substrate. The report's '95% of the infrastructure for a born clone' is a [LOGIC]/[CLAIM] lean — held, not a finding. Apex held; manifestation b.
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