Can clone genius from skin cells?

Biotechnology company ACT (USA) has developed techniques that can produce babies as desired. This method is more effective than the previous Dolly cloning technique and is more suitable for people because it has fewer side effects.

By reprogramming the genes in adult mouse skin cells and putting them into the embryo, ACT researchers introduced a generation of mice that looked like prototype mice.

ACT's director of science, Robert Lanza, said that this method could be applied in humans to create babies with 10-70% of the same characteristics as Albert Einstein's scientific genius by injecting several cells. His skin enters the embryo.

Accordingly, the baby will carry the genes of three people - parents and donors of skin tissue. Not only that, the new technique also helps clone 100% by using embryos that have 4 sets of chromosomes, instead of 2 sets as usual.

This embryo can only develop into the placenta. When genetically engineered skin cells are pumped into the embryo, the rest of the fetus grows from skin cells to become an identical replica of the skin.

Dr. Robert Lanza (Photo: nytimes)