"I can clone a human being"

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thread starter aznegglover Apr 22 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies. The cloning was recorded by an independent documentary film-maker who has testified to The Independent that the cloning had taken place and that the women were genuinely hoping to become pregnant with the first cloned embryos specifically created for the purposes of human reproduction. Panayiotis Zavos has broken the ultimate taboo of transferring cloned embryos into the human womb, a procedure that is a criminal offence in Britain and illegal in many other countries. He carried out the work at a secret lab-oratory, probably located in the Middle East where there is no cloning ban. Dr Zavos, a naturalised American, also has fertility clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, where he was born. His patients � three married couples and a single woman � came from Britain, the United States and an unspecified country in the Middle East. None of the embryo transfers led to a viable pregnancy but Dr Zavos said yesterday that this was just the "first chapter" in his ongoing and serious attempts at producing a baby cloned from the skin cells of its "parent". "There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen," Dr Zavos said in an interview yesterday with The Independent. "If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one," he said. His claims are certain to be denounced by mainstream fertility scientists who in 2004 tried to gag Dr Zavos by imploring the British media not to give him the oxygen of publicity without him providing evidence to back up his statements. Despite a lower profile over the past five years, scores of couples have now approached Dr Zavos hoping that he will help them to overcome their infertility by using the same cloning technique that was used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996. "I get enquiries every day. To date we have had over 100 enquiries and every enquiry is serious. The criteria is that they have to consider human reproductive cloning as the only option available to them after they have exhausted everything else," Dr Zavos said. "We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this." It took 277 attempts to create Dolly but since then the cloning procedure in animals has been refined and it has now become more efficient, although most experts in the field believe that it is still too dangerous to be allowed as a form of human fertility treatment. Dr Zavos dismissed these fears saying that many of the

d4rkxStrIfe 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

xBigBang said: " Sounds like House of the Scorpion anyone? D:" One of the best books I have ever read

MirkomosoX 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Coooooool. Cloning is awesome! Even if you're against it you've got to admit it's cool that we know how to do it

aznegglover 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Cloning the dead is a bit creepy though Anyone else agree :/?

YangGuang 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

how nice to know.

Ihtesham 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I just saw this on FOX 5 news about 1 or 2 hours ago.

AnasF 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Macaroni said: " It's not really disgusting, considering humans probably did asexual cloning reproduction when we were cellular organisms " Probably? Learn2Meiosis. Anyhow, cloning's fine. But it's useless now, with the world's population reaching seven billion. Cloning messes with the end of life, if you're cloning dead people, and that can have many consequences, including the collapse of religion and spirituality itself. This would result in society falling in on itself, and people losing the fear of dying/wasting their lives. Tsk tsk.

jabajo 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

they should clone Chuck Norris. then we get the clones, put them in the army, then we be unbeatable!

Smextaci 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Macaroni said: " It's not really disgusting, considering humans probably did asexual cloning reproduction when we were cellular organisms " Considering that those cellular organisms you're talking about aren't humans. So yes, it's disgusting.

ChocoVo 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Um even though they looked the same, personalities are still gonna vary because of the environments they live in e.g (different friends, family, homes). there is no way you can clone a 100% identical person with the same thoughts/ideals.

DrawinNubs 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Oh great that's what the world needs more babies >_>

Humanmango 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Those couples sure are going to be enjoying their instant-middle-age babies...

Tamama 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Cloning sounds really awesome, it really does. I've been wanting to see something cloned since I was little! n__n But does this world really need more humans on it :x?

cooljoe226 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

AnasF said: " Probably? Learn2Meiosis. Anyhow, cloning's fine. But it's useless now, with the world's population reaching seven billion. Cloning messes with the end of life, if you're cloning dead people, and that can have many consequences, including the collapse of religion and spirituality itself. This would result in society falling in on itself, and people losing the fear of dying/wasting their lives. Tsk tsk." cloning a person means that they physically look alike if you clone hitler and put him in some high class place or low class place it wouldn't really matter he wouldn't be all jew crazy

Altered 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Reminds me of The Island

Cuteness 04/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Cool, but clones age and die faster than the original, right?