Actually, cloning a human being is incredibly easy, in relative terms. If you want to clone a human being via nuclear transfer, you have a couple very simple (again, a relative term) steps: 1, Obtain an unfertilized egg cell. read more
“It’s an interesting part of the puzzle of why primates have been so difficult to clone,” says Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, a Massachusetts-based biotech company that has cloned very early stage human embryos for therapeutic research. read more
Their results, published in the May 15 issue of Genes & Development, cast a long shadow of doubt over current prospects for reproductive human cloning. Cloning [the transfer of a somatic (body) cell nucleus into an enucleated egg] depends upon the faithful reprogramming of the donor nucleus. read more