Giant cloning factory in China could one day clone humans 

Xu Xiaochun, the Chinese scientist behind the world’s largest cloning factory Boyalife Group, claims that they now have the technology to clone humans.

“The technology is already there. If this is allowed, I don’t think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology,” Xu told AFP.

The company along with its partners is already building a giant plant in Tianjin in China. Aiming to come up with one million cloned cows a year by 2020, it is expected to go into production within the next seven months.

Aside from cattle, the factory will also clone pets, police dogs specializing in search and rescue, and thoroughbred racehorses.

Currently, the company does not engage in human cloning due to possible adverse public reactions. However, Xu believes that humans could have more options in terms of their own reproduction as social values change.

“Maybe in the future you have three choices instead of one. You either have fifty-fifty, or you have a choice of having the genetics 100 percent from Daddy or 100 percent from Mummy. This is only a choice,” he explained.

Boyalife has already partnered with the South Korean firm Sooam and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve primate cloning capacity in order to develop better test animals for disease research. It will house a gene bank that can hold up to about five million cell samples frozen in liquid nitrogen.