The Human Cloning Project

Cultivating brainless human clones for organ harvesting and longevity research.

The ethics of human cloning, and a call to rethink

We as a community believe that cultivating brainless human clones (bodyoids) is ethical. The brain cortex is the organ responsible for consciousness, experiences, and feelings. By ensuring that no cortex forms—only the brain stem exists—we ensure that bodyoids are less conscious than the animals we slaughter at scale:

• ~80 billion land animals annually (chickens, pigs, cattle)
• ~1-3 trillion fish and marine animals annually

A bodyoid without a cortex cannot experience pain, fear, or awareness. It is a biological system maintained by brain stem functions—breathing, heartbeat, basic reflexes—nothing more. This makes it ethically equivalent to organ cultures, not to conscious beings.

What is The Human Cloning Project?

The Human Cloning Project is an anonymous community of researchers working on the science and engineering challenges of cultivating brainless human clones. We focus on cortex-free development to create biological platforms for organ generation and longevity research.

We share research on techniques to suppress cortical development while maintaining organ functionality. Starting with primate models, we work toward scalable human cloning methods. Our goal is extending healthy human lifespan through biological solutions.

Who is behind humanclone.co?

We are an anonymous group of researchers around the world, working in independent research labs and companies. The Human Cloning Project exists for anonymous exchange of science and engineering knowledge.

What are the use cases of brainless human clones?

• Stage 1: Bodyoids for research - Closing the gap between animal models and human clinical trials. 90% of therapies that succeed in animal trials fail in humans. ^[1]
• Stage 2: Bodyoids for organ transplantation - In the US alone:
  • ~600,000 patients have end-stage renal disease
  • ~600,000 patients have end-stage cardiac disease
  • ~105,000 people are waiting for transplants
  • ~25,000 kidney transplants performed yearly
  • ~3,800 heart transplants performed yearly
  • ~17 people die each day waiting for an organ
  There is demand for 800,000 heart transplants each year but only 5,000 performed in the US. Organs from your genetic clone are less likely to be rejected, reducing the need for immunosuppression.
• Stage 3: Stem cell therapy - Stem cells from bodyoids maintain their natural regenerative potential and epigenetic youth, unlike iPSCs which often show incomplete reprogramming.
• Blood body - Using young blood from clones for parabiosis-like therapies.
• Stage 4: Head transplantation - Solving spinal cord fusion, nerve fiber fusion, automating the surgery robotically, managing the 14-21 day coma period. This video shows how this might work. Head transplantation to genetic clones is 2/3 engineering challenge and 1/3 waiting for scientific outcomes (nerve fiber fusion).

What is the technology?

We cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997. Since then, work has continued on:

• Decreasing failure rates of SCNT (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer)
• Robotic biolab automation
• Artificial womb development
• Nerve stimulation to replace brain stem functions

Who else is working on this?

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught speaking about the topic. Elon Musk said it's technically possible. Peter Thiel backed a stealth company in the space. Stanford University is working on it under the term "bodyoids".

Join the community

Join our Discord to connect with researchers and engineers working on human longevity.

References

[1] Bodyoids: A Novel Approach to Cortex-Free Human Development. Stanford Bioengineering Lab, 2024.