Posted on 12/26/2002 6:02:33 PM PST by HAL9000
Birth of a small girl obtained by cloning, according to the sect of the raéliens
Friday December 27, 2002 - 1h49 GMT
MIAMI (the United States), 26 déc (AFP) - the scientist Frenchwoman and member of the sect of the raéliens Brigitte Boisselier affirmed Thursday evening with the AFP to have put at the world a baby obtained by the technique of the cloning.
The baby, a small girl, came in the world "today" (Thursday) by Caesarean. "Ca they passed very well", was restricted to affirm Mrs. Boisselier, president of the company of human cloning Clonaid, joined by telephone in Miami (Florida, south-east of the United States).
The effort of the raéliens to put at the world the first cloné baby having been realized in the greatest secrecy, it was not possible, in the absence of a scientific publication in the code of practice, to obtain for the moment an unspecified independent scientific confirmation that the baby was well a clone.
Questioned on the circumstances of this birth, it scientific Frenchwoman refused to give further information immediately more, in particular the birthplace.
"I prefer not in saying more for the moment", has it says, by adding that it would make a public presentation Friday in Florida.
It did not specify either if it would introduce the baby at this occasion.
November 27, Mrs. Boisselier had indicated to the AFP that this birth was awaited by an American couple.
If this birth were confirmed of independent scientific source, it would be about the first baby obtained by the discussed technique of the human cloning and whose birth will have been publicly announced.
They cloned a human like I've been banging Anna Kournikova.
Raelian clone to be unveiled?
Associated Press
New York — A chemist and Raelian bishop who said last week that her company would soon produce the world's first human clone — a baby girl genetically identical to her 30-year-old mother — has promised an announcement Friday.
A spokeswoman for Brigitte Boisselier and the company, Clonaid, declined to answer directly when asked if they will claim to have produced the world's first cloned baby.
But the spokeswoman, Nadine Gary, said Thursday that Ms. Boisselier intends to have video equipment at a news briefing in Florida and would have an "independent inspector" take DNA evidence from baby and mother. If the baby was a clone of the mother, the two would be genetically identical.
Many scientists are skeptical about Clonaid's ability to accomplish the feat. The company was founded in the Bahamas in 1997 by Claude Vorilhon, a former French journalist and leader of the Raelians group. Mr. Vorilhon and his followers claim aliens visiting him in the 1970s revealed they had created all life on Earth through genetic engineering.
Cloning produces a new individual using only one person's DNA. Scientists remove the genetic material from an unfertilized egg, then introduce new DNA from a cell of the animal to be cloned. Under the proper conditions, the egg begins dividing into new cells according to the instructions in the introduced DNA.
Ms. Boisselier, who claims two chemistry degrees and previously was marketing director for a chemical company in France, identifies herself as a Raelian bishop.
Ms. Boisselier would not say where Clonaid has been carrying out its experiments.
I think I get it: they are trying to play God, but inevitably they fall short.
Chloe the Clone?
Mimea?
Xeroxa?
Other suggestions?
My big concern is the cost in terms of life. Dolly wasn't the first attempt. It took many miscarriages, and abortions due to deformities to produce Dolly. I would want to know where these people did their work, and how many implantations it took to produce this child.
Sorry, I don't like the looks of them.
Sergei Fedorov will not be happy.
How many sets?
Stay Safe Dead (dat doesn't sound right does it )
I say It's a lie
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