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[Rejuvena]

Please don;t discard this at the get go. My grandmother just died and it completely crushed me. I was wondering if preserving a lock of her hair and therefore some of her DNA might in the future enable her to be cloned. I know this sounds like complete science fiction, but I am determined to do it no matter how many people laugh at me - I know there are blood and and hair sample labs that keep hair in case there is a future technology that allows cloning from that. I was wondering how I should procure the hair - should it be with the follicle attached, should it be stored in a certain way and what the method of extraction would be. If anyone has any links to serious literature on this or could offer serious advice, it would be very much appreciated. I'm sorry if this is in the wrongg section, but couldnt find a separate one on cloning, so if the mods choose to move it to a more appropriate place, please alert me
Thank you,
Violett

[Brain_Ischemia]

Not science fiction; the technology to do what you propose already exists in the case of large mammals (ie; livestock); it hasn't been done in humans, but the same capacity essentially *already exists* for humans too. A woman willing to be artificially inseminated, carry the pregnancy to term, etc (you, perhaps?).

Understand, however, that human cloning has been explicitly outlawed throughout much of the world, and there's little reason to expect that that will change.

Frankly, I'm inclined to appreciate why it's illegal. Cloning a pet is not the same as cloning a person, and people don't yet seem to fully appreciate that a human clone is no more the same individual than if it were a genetic twin sister or brother.