And I’m sitting here thinking, “Okay, gene therapy, cool. But what if… WHAT IF… we could clone like, the *good* parts of ourselves and just, like, infuse them back in?” I know, I know, it sounds totally bonkers.
Imagine this: You’re getting older, your knees are creaky, you forget where you put your keys every five minutes (totally me right now, by the way). But, back in the day, when you were, like, peak physical condition – say, a ripped 25-year-old – you had some, uh, *cells* preserved. Maybe from a hair follicle, whatever.
Then, bam! Clone Infusion. They take those cells, clone the super-healthy, young versions of your knee cartilage, your memory centers (haha, good luck with that one!), and just, like, pump ’em back in. Suddenly, you’re feeling like a million bucks again! Well, maybe not a million, but definitely better than you were.
I mean, the ethical implications are, obviously, HUGE. Like, who gets to do this? Is it just for the super-rich? Will it create some kind of two-tiered society where the haves are eternally young and the have-nots are stuck with the aging process? That’s kinda terrifying, tbh.
And, like, what about identity? If you’re constantly infusing younger versions of yourself, are you still… *you*? It’s like that old philosophical question about the ship of Theseus, ya know? If you replace every single plank, is it still the same ship? Deep thoughts, man. Deep thoughts.
Plus, there’s the whole “what could go wrong?” angle. What if the cloned cells go rogue and start, like, multiplying uncontrollably? Suddenly you’ve got a tumor made of your own, slightly younger knee cartilage. Not exactly the fountain of youth, is it?
Okay, okay, I’m getting carried away. It’s probably just a ridiculous pipe dream. But hey, Takara Bio is already working on gene therapy, so who knows what the future holds? Maybe one day, Clone Infusion will be a real thing. Just… hopefully with some really, really good safety regulations.
