Human Cloning News
Human cloning: human clones can be made but not born.
That's the naïve verdict of President Clinton, and also of advisors to the British
government this week (9/12/98). Make clones for medical research, to grow human
tissues from embyonic stem cells, but don't implant them into the womb.
Take a cell from your body, place it against a human egg from
which genes have been removed, add a spark of electricity and the two become
one. The egg thinks it's been fertilised and begins to grow rapidly as a clone.
Success rates will soon be 75% judging by latest Japanese work in cows also
published this week.
Some American scientists want to clone babies and the only thing stopping them
is knowing how to make that first embryo. And 6% of the public want it too.
Dianne tells me she wants to clone her dad and have "him" as a baby. The latest
British "yes" to human cloning research is a massive Christmas present to them
all.