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A United States-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women. In an interview published on Wednesday, Panayiotis Zavos told Britain’s Independent newspaper that although none of the women had had a viable pregnancy as a result, the first cloned baby could now be born within a couple of years. “There is absolutely no doubt about it... the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen,” he said, quoted by the paper. “If we intensify our efforts, we can have a cloned...

HELENA, Mont. - A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare, said Amy Astin, the hospital's director of community and government relations. The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition Thursday, she said. "These babies are doing grand," said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the perinatologist who delivered the girls. The babies were born about two months early and were conceived without fertility drugs, he...

British scientists say they have successfully cloned a human embryo - the country's first. The Newcastle University team took eggs from 11 women, removed the genetic material and replaced it with DNA from embryonic stem cells. Three of the resultant clones lived and grew in the laboratory for three days and one survived for five days. The critical factor for success appeared to be how quickly the egg was collected and manipulated. Patient-specific stem cell first Any longer than an hour and there was no success, Professor Alison Murdoch and colleagues found. The clone that lasted for five days had...

Hi all I saw a movie the other night on TV (one of the HBO channels I think) and I just loved it. It's one of those movies that some of us say if only this really would happen today. Stay with it for the last 1/2 hour because the twist will get you. Below are a few details of this 1997 movie. Would love to know if any of you have seen it and whay you think. Plot Summary: A community activist charged with killing two cops, one of them his ex-wife, is found not guilty due to lack...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Milk and meat products from cloned cattle, pigs and goats are safe for consumers to eat, according to a Food and Drug Administration document obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The FDA findings bring the agency one step closer to determining whether to allow the commercialization of food from cloned animals. A final policy decision is expected next year. Cloned animals -- which are genetically identical -- are attractive to the industry because ranchers are able to keep their favorite livestock, providing better tasting meat and more milk and eggs. "Edible products from normal, healthy clones or their...

THE families of more than 50 Israeli and Palestinian children have appealed to the controversial cloning firm Clonaid to produce copies of their lost relatives, the company's chief executive has claimed. "I have had many, many requests from parents whose children were killed here in recent violence," Clonaid chief Brigitte Boisselier told reporters at a press conference in Tel Aviv. "Some of them were tiny babies but sometimes they were almost adults - aged 16 to 18." She said the requests had come from both Israeli and Palestinian parents. "Meeting them was very disturbing." Boisselier, a French national and former...

HOLLYWOOD, Florida (Reuters) - A company associated with a group that believes extraterrestrials created mankind claimed Friday that it had produced the first clone of a human being. The company, Clonaid, announced it had created a healthy baby girl who was a clone of the 31-year-old American woman who gave birth to her. No proof was provided for the claim. "I'm very very pleased to announce that the first baby clone is born," Clonaid director Brigitte Boisselier, a former research chemist in France, said at a news conference in Hollywood, north of Miami.