Just a matter of time till human cloning is done, that is , assuming it hasn't already been done secretly. via sputniknews: Chinese scientists startled the world January 28 by announcing they'd successfully cloned a monkey, sparking controversy about the possibility of human cloning not being far away. Let's take a look at some other successfully cloned mammals. In nature, the child of a mammal is conceived deep within mother's body. The embryo carries genes from both the father and the mother and is never a precise copy of either. However, sometimes, one egg can divide one or several times, producing an "identical," or monozygotic, twins — two precise copies of one organism. To produce a clone, though, one must first extract the DNA of an adult specimen and put it into an egg previously cleansed of its own DNA. Then the modified egg is inserted into a female body and it stays there until an offspring is born. Instead of two sources of DNA, it has only one, of which its own is an exact