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[Italian] Doctor claims cloning three human babies
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| 5 Mar 2009, 0057 hrs IST
| PTI
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: clone; cloning; geneticcannibalism; genetics; guineapigs; human; humanclosing; scientificexperiment
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Headline worthy of the Enquirer.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:06:09 PM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Economists predicting a quick recovery are like the band that continued playing on the Titanic.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
And we should believe this claim because ... ?
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:06:31 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
“Clones-a? Ohhh, surrre- I gotta lotsa da clones! I a been a doin itta fo years-a!”
“You say clones-a, I gotta de clones-a, no problem!”
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:09:11 PM PST
by
J40000
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
I am not surprised. My guess we have been doing this for years.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:16:25 PM PST
by
Diggity
To: Tax-chick
A DNA test should reveal the authenticity of the claim, if the clones are identified.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:16:25 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
These people never submit their claims to independent scientific verification.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:18:06 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
“”The women's eggs were impregnated in a laboratory through a method called ‘nuclear transfer’......,”
Right. Lots of that nuclear transferring going on these days.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:18:33 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
How long?
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:22:22 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
To: Tax-chick
It’s because cloning humans is illegal.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:25:19 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Out of print but still worth reading, Brain Child by George Turner.
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
So he'd get a fine, if it were proved. Big deal - he'd be whisked into a secure location and set up with a life of luxury,
if it were proved.
Far more probable: he's made the whole thing up, just like the last guy. The South Korean, remember?
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:30:25 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: Tax-chick
I remember the Korean. Wasn’t he working for a university at the time?
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:38:27 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
That seems right, although I’m not sure.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:40:09 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
A DNA test should reveal the authenticity of the claim, if the clones are identified.
They could simply be identical triplets.
To: AnotherUnixGeek; MyTwoCopperCoins
I assumed the poster meant a DNA match with the supposed tissue donor.
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posted on
03/04/2009 1:47:26 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: Tax-chick
Yes, you’re right. And I also didn’t read the article thoroughly enough to note that the babies were of both genders. Sorry for the drive-by posting.
To: AnotherUnixGeek
I hadn’t noticed the sex of the supposed children, either.
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posted on
03/04/2009 2:02:00 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
To: Tax-chick
Yes, I am aware natural-born identical twins have the same DNA. Cloning can be verified if the biological mother and the children are identical, genetically.
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posted on
03/04/2009 2:06:16 PM PST
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
"They could simply be identical triplets."
I could see benefits of such technology.
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posted on
03/04/2009 3:02:18 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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