The Most Exceptional Example of Cloning Seen So Far

Japanese scientists have successfully tested using skin cells from a mouse to create healthy baby mice.  (Scientific American:  Healthy Baby Mice Produced from Mouse Mom's Skin Cells)

Sample:

Although only 1 percent of the cells led to live births, the animals that were born alive were healthy, fertile, and lived a normal lifespan, says Katsuhiko Hayashi, a stem cell biologist at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and the senior author of a paper on the research, published Monday in Nature.

- Scientific American

Note:  some aspects of Nature are subscription only but the link is live and I have verified it works.

The approach of Scientific American is not the same as with Science Daily since S.D. presents an abstract whereas S.A. gives us possibly a more developed article from an intelligent and gifted author, Karen Weintraub.  Although I have not previously been familiar with her work, she shows anything else she writes is worth taking seriously.

I won't presume to top the sci fi already presented in the article since Weintraub considers multiple possible applications for this science and all are positive and remarkable.

So, let's go with the nightmare sci movie since you want to use this to clone an army of warrior robo people, right?

That horror movie will take a whole lot more than this breakthrough science since there's no genetic engineering to the germ plasm so the result would only be a whole lot more regular people and the world sure needs that, huh.

But how about this one:  such a technique would permit cloning yourself.  Maybe you would lobotomize the beast at birth and then shepherd its growth so you can use it for spare parts as your own corpus weakens in life.  That violates just about every aspect of humanity we can imagine but it seems it would be technically possible.

Carry on with your own twisted thoughts on where this could possibly go but our primary interest will be in how to keep those mice out of the cat food.

(Ed:  why don't the cats do it?)

Because they're even lazier than Congress.

See, Mom, I knew I could weasel something political in there somewhere.  Aren't you proud?

(Ed:  she has moved on to her greater reward!)

Yah, that's how I'm sure she won't object.

Note:  she was determinedly political and irrevocably Democrat to her last breath.

Can I get a 'Hear, Hear,' Mum?

(Ed:  I don't hear nothin'!)

Nah, me either.  I just thought I'd try one more time.