By my count these are Identical sextuplets.
Posted on 03/04/2009 1:04:43 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
LONDON: The ethical aspect notwithstanding, an Italian doctor has claimed to have cloned three human babies who are "healthy" and now living in eastern Europe.
"I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique. It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today. They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now," the Daily Telegraph quoted Severino Antinori as telling the 'Oggi' weekly.
"The women's eggs were impregnated in a laboratory through a method called 'nuclear transfer'," he said, adding that the method used was "an improvement" over the technique used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.
Two weeks ago, Antinori had sparked controversy by announcing that he would artificially impregnate a woman whose husband is in an irreversible coma following a brain tumour.
By my count these are Identical sextuplets.
Are those the girls who were in the “Nash Bridges” episode?
“Each of the blonde-haired sisters has had breast implant surgery to augment her appearance.”
FAIL.
Oh, I don’t know. I googled “clones” to get a funny picture.
This guy is one step behind the Raelians. Once upon a time, he was a serious physician/researcher, but he went over the edge many years ago, and the scientific community doesn’t take him any more seriously than it takes the Raelians. If he’d actually succeeded with a human cloning 9 years ago, the evidence would have been presented long before now. He might have done a nuclear transfer from a zygote to a donor egg or zygote, but that’s not cloning, and the resulting baby would not be a DNA match to either of the parents who provided the gametes for the tranferred nucleus (or to any one who provided the donor egg or zygote).
Thanks, that’s very informative.
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