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Juan Ayala | Occultis Mundi, Homunculus History, & The Rooster Ritual of the Liber Vaccae
Advanced Cell Technology and Recent Synthetic Embryo Breakthroughs
Chronological milestones in cloning include the 1998 creation of a human-cow embryo and the 2018 birth of cloned macaques named Zong Zong and Hua Hua. In 2023, researchers created synthetic human embryos without using eggs or sperm, effectively navigating around existing bioethical legislation. The director of bioethics at Stanford, David Magnus, shares a surname with the legendary alchemist Albertus Magnus, who reportedly created a speaking homunculus.