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837 Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/01/2026 07:00 EDT

Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies

MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a new kidney or liver. Or, alternatively, he has speculated, you might one da

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