With our current understanding producing a human clone would involve great human suffering for a questionable end.
Even if the entire blastocyst had been implanted into a womb, it wouldn't have yielded a human clone.
Individually they believe they have the knowledge necessary to produce a human clone now or in the very near future.
But Mitalipov says his process with the human cells isn't designed to generate a human clone, but rather just to create the embryonic stem cells.
Monash University's Trounson puts the Raelians' chances of actually having a human clone at less than the chance that a person will be struck by lightning.
Nonetheless, ACT's paper, published yesterday in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, provides a guidebook to groups that want to clone human embryos to make babies.
President Bush has already spoken out about news from South Korea late yesterday that scientists there have managed to clone human stem cells for medical research.
Boisselier, a French biochemist, said she hopes to clone a human being within a year.
However, at least two groups of scientists have said they have plans to clone a human.
Boisselier said she wants to prove it is safe to clone a human.
When Zavos announced his intentions to clone a human, he predicted that he and Antinori could do it within two years.
In order to clone a human, scientists would remove the nucleus of an egg and extract its genetic material, leaving just its shell.
The first scientists to clone a human embryo admitted today that there were ethical lapses in the way the research was carried out.
In addition to the work at Clonaid, former University of Kentucky professor Panayiotis Zavos said he plans to clone a human within the next year.
He cited the recent case of the 62-year-old woman from France who gave birth to her own nephew, and a declaration by some doctors that they intend to clone a human being as soon as they can.
Panos Zavos , the Kentucky fertility doctor and would-be human cloner, apparently doesn't see Lucas' clone army as a problem.
Finally, we assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone.
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