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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida judge dismissed a petition to appoint a state guardian for allegedly cloned baby "Eve" on Wednesday after the company that says it cloned the child stated the infant was in Israel. Expressing skepticism that a cloned child even existed but concern for its welfare if it did, Juvenile Court Judge John Frusciante said his court had no jurisdiction in the case. Frusciante dismissed the private citizen's petition after Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier testified to the court in Fort Lauderdale that the child and her mother were in Israel and the baby had never...

THE Clonaid group says a third cloned baby has been born in Japan, but has again offered no proof. "A third baby is born now," Clonaid president Brigitte Boisselier said today. She said the parents were a Japanese couple in their 40s and the baby, born Wednesday, was cloned from another of the couple's children who was in a coma. Clonaid has so far failed to provide any evidence to back up its claims of successful human cloning. International scientists have expressed widespread scepticism since an announcement of the first baby in December. Boisselier said the previous babies were born...

SUSPICIONS mounted yesterday over a scientist’s claims to have created the world’s first human clone after she failed to submit the baby for DNA testing. Dr Brigitte Boisselier - medical director of Clonaid, a maverick scientific research company founded by an alien-worshipping cult - announced the child’s birth a week ago. Now she says the American parents of baby Eve have changed their mind about submitting the child to an independent medical examination to prove it is indeed identical to its 31-year-old mother. Dr Boisselier blamed a lawsuit launched in Florida earlier this week for the change of heart. Dr...

News outlets failed dismally in reporting on Clonaid OPINION By Art Caplan, Ph.D. Jan. 3 — I do not believe chemist Brigitte Boisselier and her cloning company Clonaid, which is sponsored by the manifestly crazy cult known as the Raelians, have created a clone. I do believe that a number of negative ramifications have resulted since Boisselier appeared just after Christmas in a tacky Hollywood, Fla., motel room to announce to the world that the first cloned human had been born. And the blame for these unfortunate events must be laid squarely at the feet of the media.

Purported clone coming home to U.S. today, official says Company tied to sect states it will allow independent DNA tests 12/30/2002 Associated Press NEW YORK - The company that says it created the world's first cloned human says the baby, nicknamed "Eve," is coming home to the United States on Monday. The baby is flying into the country with her family, Brigitte Boisselier said Sunday, two days after she announced the child's birth. Dr. Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, the cloning company affiliated with a religious sect that believes space aliens launched life on Earth. "The baby is...

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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.