{"id":167476,"date":"2023-07-13T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/why-havent-we-cloned-a-human-yet"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:23:58","slug":"why-havent-we-cloned-a-human-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/why-havent-we-cloned-a-human-yet","title":{"rendered":"Why haven\u2019t we cloned a human yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-havent-we-cloned-a-human-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So why, almost 30 years on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/57961-dolly-the-sheep-announcement-20-year-anniversary.html\">Dolly<\/a>, haven\u2019t humans been cloned yet? Is it primarily for ethical reasons, are there technological barriers, or is it simply not worth doing?<\/p>\n<p>Related: What are the alternatives to animal testing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why, almost 30 years on from Dolly, haven\u2019t humans been cloned yet? Is it primarily for ethical reasons, are there technological barriers, or is it simply not worth doing? Related: What are the alternatives to animal testing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}