{"id":234363,"date":"2026-03-31T23:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-startup-has-been-quietly-pitching-cloned-human-bodies-to-transfer-your-brain-into"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:05:06","slug":"a-startup-has-been-quietly-pitching-cloned-human-bodies-to-transfer-your-brain-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-startup-has-been-quietly-pitching-cloned-human-bodies-to-transfer-your-brain-into","title":{"rendered":"A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That hasn\u2019t stopped some from exploring the idea as part of a secretive effort to realize an alternative to anti-aging tech that sounds like it was ripped straight out of a dystopian science fiction novel. A billionaire-backed stealth startup, called R3 Bio, recently announced that it was raising money to develop non-sentient monkey \u201corgan sacks,\u201d as Wired <\/em>reported last week<\/a>, an eyebrow-raising alternative to animal testing. Such structures would contain all typical organs excluding the brain, ultimately serving as a source for donor organs and tissues.<\/p>\n

But according to a sprawling followup investigation by MIT Technology Review<\/em><\/a>, R3 Bio\u2019s founders secretly have a far more ambitious goal in mind: creating entire \u201cbrainless clones\u201d of the human body that aging or ill individuals could one day transplant their brain into. One advantage of not developing the brain in the donor bodies, albeit a ghoulish one: such a brain-free clone would neatly circumvent certain moral conundrums over the concept.<\/p>\n

Still, to call the idea ethically fraught would be a vast understatement. Despite an insider likening a pitch they heard from R3\u2019s founder, John Schloendorn, to a \u201cclose encounter of the third kind\u201d with \u201cDr. Strangelove\u201d in an interview with Tech Review<\/em>, the company has since distanced itself from the idea of brainless human clones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That hasn\u2019t stopped some from exploring the idea as part of a secretive effort to realize an alternative to anti-aging tech that sounds like it was ripped straight out of a dystopian science fiction novel. A billionaire-backed stealth startup, called R3 Bio, recently announced that it was raising money to develop non-sentient monkey \u201corgan sacks,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234363","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}