How far are we from cloning a human being?

BBC America's hit series Orphan Black is entertainment's latest sci-fi series to look at the implications of cloning humans. But how far is science fiction from becoming science fact? read more

It would be theoretically possible to clone humans, but, to date, there are no records of an actual fully developed human ever being cloned, Live Science reported. The closest we have come to this is the 1997 cloning of our closet relative: the monkey. read more

From what I gather from popular news sources, the technology to clone mammals, including humans, exists and has been used to clone non-humans (e.g., Dolly the sheep). So from a technological standpoint, it *could* be done. read more

Click to View Full Infographic The astoundingly complex concept of cloning boils down to a fairly simple (in theory, at least) practice: you need two cells from the same animal — one of which is an egg cell from which you’ve removed the DNA. read more