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Italian cloned 3 babies, USA 2 try next.
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16-05-2002 11:48am#1
The crazy Italian genetics man has already attempted to CLone 3 babies, and by the end of this year 3 different women may give birth to 3 cloned babies..........
Saying the genie already was out of the bottle on cloning, a fertility expert predicted on Wednesday that he would clone a human baby later this year, and urged the U.S. Congress to keep all cloning legal so it can be regulated.
"A pregnancy can take place this year," Panayiotis Zavos, a fertility expert who runs a clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, told a House of Representatives subcommittee. "2002 will be the year of the clones."
Later he told reporters that his team was ready to try to create a human clone and impregnate a woman later this year.
Zavos cast doubts on claims by two other groups that they had created cloned human embryos, and promised to produce proof of a pregnancy and DNA evidence that the pregnancy involved a clone, if he did it.
While saying all his cloning work would be done overseas, Zavos urged the House Government Reform Committee's subcommittee on criminal justice, drug policy and human resources to keep cloning legal in the United States.
The House last July passed legislation that would ban all cloning. The Senate is considering bills that would either ban all human cloning research or ban reproductive cloning to make a baby.
"Consider why America has the best medical care in the world," Zavos told the subcommittee, whose members said the hearing was meant to pressure the Senate into approving a total cloning ban.
"It is because we have the freedom to investigate, research and market the latest medical techniques, all within proper procedures and safeguards. This is not the time to panic and try to turn back the clock. The genie is already out of the bottle. Let's make sure it works for us, not against us. Let's do it here. Let's do it right."
"If you are concerned about the risks of human cloning, the proper approach is to fund it and then institute regulations that will ensure that human cloning is done properly with a minimum of risk for the baby just as is done in other medical or drug innovations," Zavos told the subcommittee.
Zavos said he had not yet cloned a human embryo, or even tried on a human egg the nuclear-transfer method used to clone animals. But he said only logistics was holding him back.
He told reporters he had two labs, one in "well I guess you could say it's Europe" and one "in between Greece and India." He declined to give further details but said he had 12 suitable couples lined up who had exhausted all other fertility options.
Zavos said he had nine people on his team, including "scientists, physicians" and technicians, experts in helping women ovulate, manipulating embryos, and in the process of taking the nucleus out of an egg cell so it can be reprogrammed using the nucleus of an adult cell.
He said every pregnancy would be closely monitored and if the fetus looked abnormal, the couple would be offered the chance to abort. Even before implantation, he said, every embryo would be screened.
Zavos said he was happy with experiments he had done on mice and cattle, and was scientifically ready to proceed in humans once logistics were taken care of. He said his patients would travel to his labs for the procedures. "My patients, I care for them. I want them to have the best accommodations," he said.
Other cloning experts have cast doubt on his ability to produce a cloned human baby, and fear he could damage patients in trying to do so. But Zavos says his critics have worked only in animals and said their methods are sloppy compared to his.
His one-time colleague, Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori, has said he knows of three women pregnant with cloned embryos but has declined to give details of where they live.
"Can he show us some ultrasounds? Can he show us some evidence?" Zavos asked, saying he had "inside information" that would suggest Antinori was not telling the truth.
He also demanded evidence for claims by Brigitte Boisselier, head of the pro-cloning group Clonaid, who said her lab had cloned human embryos.
Most mainstream scientists have condemned cloning a human baby as irresponsible because of the risk of deformities and miscarriage, but support so-called therapeutic cloning meant to make very early embryos as a source of stem cells for medical research.0
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Originally posted by Kim Tae-Woo
tHE vAGGABOND, seamus ?
How did you people start new Forums, can anyone start a new forum on boards.ie?
An Overseas-News or World News might go down well here?
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