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Old 01-19-2004, 07:38 PM  
buddyjuf
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First Human Clone? (news)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3406129.stm

A controversial US fertility specialist who says he has implanted a cloned embryo into a woman's womb has been condemned as "irresponsible" by scientists.

Dr Panos Zavos gave few details and no evidence, and said it was still too early to tell if the procedure had resulted in pregnancy.

But UK Health Secretary John Reid condemned the attempt to create a cloned human baby as a "gross misuse of genetic science".

Fertility experts said if true, it was an "incredibly risky" step to take, and said Dr Zavos was giving false hope to people desperate to have children.

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