Re: Human Cloning: The Trade-In Strategy

Kathryn Aegis (aegis@igc.apc.org)
Sun, 23 Feb 1997 03:57:47 +0000


Lee Daniel Crocker:

>And a clone of yourself, while it might
>be nice to have a child with 100% of your genes instead of 50%, would
>probably die young after being infected with germs from you that have
>had 100s of generations to adapt to your--and therefore his--immune
>system.

If this is the case, can we reasonably expect to see the eight sheep
come down sick with something for which their immune system has no
defense?

Kathryn Aegis