Human clones are almost here

[Veritas]

Oh my....

A controversial doctor has claimed to have cloned human embryos and transferred them to four women prepared to give birth to the first cloned babies.
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None of the embryo transfers led to a pregnancy but Dr Zavos, a naturalised American who runs fertility clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, where he was born, said yesterday that this was just the 'first chapter' in his serious attempts at producing a baby cloned from the skin cells of its 'parent'.
the rest at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... women.html

 

[Veritas]

...What is this doctor doing? I just followed a link from that news story.

This is appalling:

She died at the age of ten in a horrific car crash, but now the little girl known only as Cady could be brought back to life by controversial fertility expert Panayiotis Zavos.
He froze some of her blood cells after her death in August 2002, and combined them with cow eggs to create a human-animal hybrid embryo.
the rest at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... clone.html

 

[lovely]

Oh Craig, I can't even digest this right now, because it's sickening. A hybrid embryo? I am going to look into this more.

 

[animal]

If you remove the nuclear material from the cow egg and replace it with the nucleus from a human cell it's genetically no different than a human embryo.

It may sound appalling but it's really not.

Using this method to collect stem cells from a blastocyst I believe is a great idea.. Using it to bring these babies into this world is disgusting. And we've known of this cloning method for a while now.. It's not like he just came up with it. This guy just wants to be some vigilante scientist and get his name in the papers.

He's not going to be funded or win grant money by acting like this.