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Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

ROME (Reuters) - Controversial Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori said on Tuesday a woman pregnant with a cloned embryo was due to give birth in January, but declined to give any details about her.

"It's going well. There are no problems," Antinori told a news conference, adding he had made a "scientific and cultural contribution" to the project but was not personally in charge.

The doctor, who made world headlines in 1994 when he helped a 62-year-old woman have a child, supports the cloning of human beings as a way for infertile couples to have children.

Many in the scientific community have challenged Antinori's statements in the past that women have been pregnant with cloned babies. He produced no evidence at the news conference.

Large numbers of doctors and scientists reject human cloning as irresponsible, saying the risk of creating deformed or sick babies is too great and that it poses unanswerable ethical dilemmas.

Antinori would not reveal the location or nationality of the woman, but said ultra-sound scans showed the fetus currently weighed 2.5 to 2.7 kg (5.5 to 5.9 pounds) and was "absolutely healthy."

He said in May three women were pregnant with clones, one in her 10th week, one in her seventh and one in her sixth. He declined at the time to say where any of the trio were, disclosing only that one lived in an Islamic nation.

Antinori did not specify on Tuesday if the woman he said was due to give birth in January was one of the three he had spoken of earlier.

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Posted by Ntercesser (Member # 332) on :

Not to down play the importance of this. The reason for this experiment is to find the lowest number of chromosomes to sustain life. The person doing this is Venter who headed up the Human Genome Project.

and as a side note the way they are going to "hobble" this thing is to make it auxiotrophic, which means they lack the ability to manufature some necessary protien.

Posted by Lost (Member # 343) on :

ntercesser i believe you are referring to the scientists that want to create new life using a mycoplasma species. that's in a different thread. this is a cloned human being born. much different with different ethical dilemmas behind it.

lost