Cloning will become a reality in 50 years

Within the next half century, parents who lost their children due to an accident may spend money to create a replica of the dead child, a Nobel laureate claims.

Currently human duplication techniques have not been applied in any country in the world. However, John Gurdon, a British biologist who recently won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, predicts that one day people will overcome moral concerns related to cloning techniques to apply it to with humans within the next five decades, BBC reported.

"In the past, the public had doubts about in vitro fertilization, but now it is widely accepted," Gurdon argued when he joined The Life Scientific program of the BBC's No. 4 radio station.

The majority of people around the world are technically concerned
The human version will cause many ethical problems.

About four decades ago, public opinion was skeptical about in vitro fertilization techniques. But after Louise Brown, the first child in vitro fertilization, was born in England in 1978, tens of thousands of infertile couples across the planet have applied this method to give birth.

In the 50s and 60s, Gurdon cloned frogs. His experiments paved the way for the cloning of Dolly sheep in 1996. Back then, an American journalist once asked him: When will this technique be applied to mammals and humans?

"I replied that it would be applied to mammals and humans for about 10 to 100 years ," he said.

Because the clone method will create a cell-like person, Gurdon says doctors only perform natural product replication. The 79-year-old professor admitted that most of the animal embryos created by cloning techniques were deformed, so the scientific community had to improve the cloning methods in the future.

When lecturing and speaking in public, Gurdon often asks the audience: If a child dies from an accident and the father and mother of the child are no longer able to give birth, what do you think about allowing them to create another child by combining the mother's eggs and skin cells of the dead child? Of course, Gurdon assumed that human cloning techniques would be effective and safe.

"On average, 60% of the audience supports a humanized solution to create a new child. Opponents say the new child may feel that it is just another substitute product of that person. is what they don't want, " he said.