Have you ever imagined a technology where, even as your body ages and deteriorates, your brain could be transplanted into a brand-new cloned body to continue living? This is no longer confined to science fiction movies -- it's now being actively pursued in reality.
MIT Technology Review has revealed that R3 Bio, a startup backed by billionaires, has been secretly pitching investors on creating "brainless human body shells" and transplanting the brains of ageing or ill individuals into them to achieve a form of immortality.
While the company publicly claims it is developing consciousness-free primates as "organ sacks" to solve the organ-donor shortage, its actual ambition extends to full human body replacement.
Scientists have criticised the project as unfeasible: human cloning is illegal in most jurisdictions, the required "artificial womb" technology does not yet exist, and the ethical implications of having women carry brainless human embryos are deeply troubling.
Founder John Schloendorn has been secretly courting investors for years with pitches about whole-body replacement. Although the company insists these are merely speculative future discussions, the revelations have sent shockwaves through the scientific community.
Ref : Fossbytes
