# Human Cloning: IVF Expert Discusses How It Could Work

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106575162892021978
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:33
- Published: 2026-10-04
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work) Strictly speaking, it would be legal to clone me, for example, tomorrow, and this is the place it's most likely to happen, a leading IVF clinic outside of New York.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=11) Behind those walls, there are people with the technology, the ability, and the desire to genetically engineer human embryos, to be the first in the world to successfully clone a human being.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=25) There's no doubt that human beings will be cloned.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=27) Dr. Jacques Cohen- It's really important to recall that technology- -a leader in his field, simply needs the approval of his clinic's ethics committee to make history.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=34) -grows out of regulation. So if I had the money, you had the permission, you could clone me tomorrow?

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=40) Well, I wouldn't say tomorrow. It'll take a year or two.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=42) We, we could, we could clone you probably within two years.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=49) What you're seeing here is an actual cloning taking place at the research facility in Scotland that pioneered the technique.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=58) In theory, it's blindingly simple. Here, it's an animal. But just as easily, you can take a cell from a human. A scraping of skin will do.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=69) Then get an egg from a female, remove the nucleus, and fuse the two with a spark of electricity.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0BjSRCJxlfNg/en/human-cloning-ivf-expert-discusses-how-it-could-work?t=77) And ta-da, you have an embryo. Implant the embryo in a woman, and nine months later, you have a carbon copy of the person from whom the skin scraping was taken.