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Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:47:07 +0000

Tim Draper Funded a Startup That Wants to Grow Your Backup Body — Without a Brain

a Richmond, California startup has been quietly pitching billionaires on “brainless clones” — and no, this isn’t an April Fools joke

R3 Bio wants to grow a copy of your body with “only enough brain structure to be alive” — so you can harvest its organs or transplant your brain into it when you get old.

MIT Technology Review just blew the lid off this thing. Investors include billionaire Tim Draper. The US government’s ARPA-H has been “very collaborative.” And the founder built his first lab in a Bay Area garage.

🧩 Dumb Mode Dictionary (click for more details) 📖 The Backstory Nobody Was Supposed to See (click for more details) 💰 Who's Backing This (click for more details) 🔬 What They've Actually Done (vs. What They Claim) (click for more details) 🗣️ What Scientists Are Saying (click for more details) 😤 The Elephant(s) in the Room (click for more details)

Cool. A garage scientist wants to grow me a spare body. Now What the Hell Do We Do? (⊙_⊙)

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Quick Hits

Want to… | Do this
Understand cloning basics | Read “The Gene” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, then the Dolly the Sheep case study
Know if this is legal | Human cloning is banned in 70+ countries. The US has no federal ban — only some state laws
Follow the money | Tim Draper + Immortal Dragons + LongGame Ventures. Search Crunchbase for R3 Bio
Read the source investigation | MIT Technology Review, March 30, 2026
Track the sister company | Kind Biotechnology, New Hampshire — Justin Rebo, patent filings for brainless animals

a guy built a lab in his garage, pitched billionaires on growing spare humans, got government attention, and the wildest part? nobody stopped him. we are so cooked.

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