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Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
(MIT Technology Review) – In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three investors: billionaire Tim Draper, the Singapore-based fund Immortal Dragons, and life-extension investors LongGame Ventures. But there is more to the story. And R3 doesn’t want that story told. MIT Technology Review discovered that the stealth startup’s founder John Schloendorn also pitched a startling, medically graphic, and ethically charged vision for what he’s called “bra…
Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. Fro...
A controversial startup is accused of developing brainless human clones, into which sick or elderly people could transfer their brains to prolong their lives. Although the company strongly denies the allegations and claims that the project is only aimed at creating "organ reservoirs" for animals, the idea raises serious questions in the scientific and ethical community.
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