Tech entrepreneur turned “biohacker” Bryan Johnson revealed the latest development in his quest for eternal youth — claiming he cloned himself as a newborn baby to harvest the organs.
Johnson, who was recently diagnosed with an incurable disease, called his science fiction-sounding organ growing plan a “frontier of new paths” to reverse aging.
“I just cloned myself…as a newborn,” Johnson, 48, wrote on X on Tuesday. “This may be scary to some people…a dystopian future.”
“But for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health,” added Johnson, who already uses blood transfusions from his “blood boy” teenage son.
While Johnson said this “baby-Bryan” will live in a petri dish for now, he claims the clone will be able to “test therapies on the clone, grow organs for transplantation, develop new treatments,” and “inject young cells.”
He also said the newborn clone will be able to become his own “blood boy” for transfusions.
“Clinical trials are already using this technology to restore dopamine neurons for Parkinson’s, heart health and eyesight,” Johnson wrote.
“This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,” he said.
Johnson added that being diagnosed with the “incurable disease” of gastritis was one of the best things that has happened to him, as “it’s opened up a frontier of new paths to repair and strengthen the body.”
He said his newborn clone “is the first example” of new the techniques he claims to be experimenting with to reverse aging.
But medical experts weren’t impressed and cast doubt on Johnson’s claims.
“I think Bryan Johnson is out there in a way we like to say in medicine, ‘today’s experimental treatments are tomorrow’s cures,’” Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox & Friends.
“But this isn’t possible,” the senior medical analyst told co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
Siegel explained the problems associated with cloning techniques with primates and referenced Shinya Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize winning technique on cleansing stem cells, that could possibly be used in the future for blood transfusions or organ transplants.
But he warned that when you experiment with a single adult stem cell, you can keep the DNA but it doesn’t work if you are trying to “grow yourself out of it.”
“It makes all kinds of mistakes. You can have all kinds of diseases. It doesn’t work,” Siegel said. “Not only is it unethical, but it doesn’t work.”
“We aren’t going to be able to clone ourselves. Our DNA and genetics doesn’t want us to.”
“He’s talking science fiction right now and he’s not doing himself or the public any service saying that’s a baby,” Siegel scathed.
“Maybe an AI, maybe a robot, but it ain’t a real person,” he added.
